diff --git a/package/libmodsecurity/Config.in b/package/libmodsecurity/Config.in
index b15d808759..69bb0494cc 100644
--- a/package/libmodsecurity/Config.in
+++ b/package/libmodsecurity/Config.in
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBMODSECURITY
 	bool "libmodsecurity"
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
-	# libmodsecurity embeds several mbedtls source files
-	depends on !(BR2_STATIC_LIBS && BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL_MBEDTLS)
+	# libmodsecurity embeds several mbedtls source files, causing
+	# various issues when static linking and other dependencies of
+	# libmodsecurity in turn use mbedtls
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE2
 	help
 	  Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity
@@ -17,8 +19,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBMODSECURITY
 
 	  https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity
 
-comment "libmodsecurity needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads"
-	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
-
-comment "libmodsecurity needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library"
-	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS && BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL_MBEDTLS
+comment "libmodsecurity needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, dynamic library"
+	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || BR2_STATIC_LIBS
diff --git a/package/nginx-modsecurity/Config.in b/package/nginx-modsecurity/Config.in
index 5cbe57a866..0bbf05fad9 100644
--- a/package/nginx-modsecurity/Config.in
+++ b/package/nginx-modsecurity/Config.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_NGINX_MODSECURITY
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_NGINX_HTTP
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # libmodsecurity
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libmodsecurity
-	depends on !(BR2_STATIC_LIBS && BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL_MBEDTLS) # libmodsecurity
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # libmodsecurity
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBMODSECURITY
 	help
 	  The ModSecurity-nginx connector is the connection
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_NGINX_MODSECURITY
 
 	  https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity-nginx
 
-comment "nginx-modsecurity needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads"
+comment "nginx-modsecurity needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, dynamic library"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_NGINX_HTTP
-	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
-
-comment "nginx-modsecurity needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library"
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_NGINX_HTTP
-	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS && BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL_MBEDTLS
+	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || BR2_STATIC_LIBS