1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in
index 9e2e88c01..c99896b47 100644
--- a/archival/Config.in
+++ b/archival/Config.in
@@ -214,8 +214,6 @@ config TAR
           create compressed archives. It's probably the most widely used
           UNIX archive program.
 
-if TAR
-
 config FEATURE_TAR_CREATE
         bool "Enable archive creation"
         default y
@@ -227,7 +225,7 @@ config FEATURE_TAR_CREATE
 config FEATURE_TAR_AUTODETECT
         bool "Autodetect compressed tarballs"
         default n
-        depends on FEATURE_SEAMLESS_Z || FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ || FEATURE_SEAMLESS_BZ2 || FEATURE_SEAMLESS_LZMA
+        depends on TAR && (FEATURE_SEAMLESS_Z || FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ || FEATURE_SEAMLESS_BZ2 || FEATURE_SEAMLESS_LZMA)
         help
           With this option tar can automatically detect compressed
           tarballs. Currently it works only on files (not pipes etc).
@@ -243,7 +241,7 @@ config FEATURE_TAR_FROM
 config FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY
         bool "Support for old tar header format"
         default N
-        depends on TAR
+        depends on TAR || DPKG
         help
           This option is required to unpack archives created in
           the old GNU format; help to kill this old format by
@@ -252,7 +250,7 @@ config FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY
 config FEATURE_TAR_OLDSUN_COMPATIBILITY
         bool "Enable untarring of tarballs with checksums produced by buggy Sun tar"
         default N
-        depends on TAR
+        depends on TAR || DPKG
         help
           This option is required to unpack archives created by some old
           version of Sun's tar (it was calculating checksum using signed
@@ -262,7 +260,7 @@ config FEATURE_TAR_OLDSUN_COMPATIBILITY
 config FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS
         bool "Support for GNU tar extensions (long filenames)"
         default y
-        depends on TAR
+        depends on TAR || DPKG
         help
           With this option busybox supports GNU long filenames and
           linknames.
@@ -291,8 +289,6 @@ config FEATURE_TAR_NOPRESERVE_TIME
           With this option busybox supports GNU tar -m
           (do not preserve time) option.
 
-endif #tar
-
 config UNCOMPRESS
         bool "uncompress"
         default n