diff --git a/package/tpm2-tools/Config.in b/package/tpm2-tools/Config.in
index d8660a8f71..35ca63bf64 100644
--- a/package/tpm2-tools/Config.in
+++ b/package/tpm2-tools/Config.in
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_TPM2_TOOLS
 	bool "tpm2-tools"
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # dbus, libglib
-	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libglib -> gettext
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libglib
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # tpm2-tss
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_TPM2_TSS
 	help
@@ -23,7 +18,5 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_TPM2_TOOLS
 
 	  https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tools
 
-comment "tpm2-tools needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library, wchar, threads"
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
-	depends on !BR2_USE_WCHAR || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
-		BR2_STATIC_LIBS
+comment "tpm2-tools needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library"
+	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS
diff --git a/package/tpm2-tools/tpm2-tools.mk b/package/tpm2-tools/tpm2-tools.mk
index 381873a8f9..9e50170297 100644
--- a/package/tpm2-tools/tpm2-tools.mk
+++ b/package/tpm2-tools/tpm2-tools.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ TPM2_TOOLS_VERSION = 3.1.4
 TPM2_TOOLS_SITE = https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tools/releases/download/$(TPM2_TOOLS_VERSION)
 TPM2_TOOLS_LICENSE = BSD-2-Clause
 TPM2_TOOLS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
-TPM2_TOOLS_DEPENDENCIES = dbus libcurl libglib2 openssl tpm2-tss host-pkgconf
+TPM2_TOOLS_DEPENDENCIES = libcurl openssl tpm2-tss host-pkgconf
 
 # -fstack-protector-all and FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is used by
 # default. Disable that so the BR2_SSP_* / BR2_FORTIFY_SOURCE_* options