diff --git a/package/circus/Config.in b/package/circus/Config.in
index f1cd93c733..832b04dfa4 100644
--- a/package/circus/Config.in
+++ b/package/circus/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_CIRCUS
 	bool "circus"
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON || BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # python-tornado
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # pyzmq -> zeromq
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # pyzmq -> zeromq
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_IOWAIT # runtime
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_CIRCUS
 
 	  https://circus.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
 
-comment "circus needs Python and a toolchain w/ C++, threads"
+comment "circus needs Python 3 and a toolchain w/ C++, threads"
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
-		!(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON || BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3)
+		!BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3
diff --git a/package/python-tomako/Config.in b/package/python-tomako/Config.in
index bd6d29982a..1521035bb6 100644
--- a/package/python-tomako/Config.in
+++ b/package/python-tomako/Config.in
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_TOMAKO
 	bool "python-tomako"
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # python-tornado
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_TORNADO # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_MAKO # runtime
 	help
diff --git a/package/python-tornado/Config.in b/package/python-tornado/Config.in
index 1afbdc5729..e1bf8343f0 100644
--- a/package/python-tornado/Config.in
+++ b/package/python-tornado/Config.in
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_TORNADO
 	bool "python-tornado"
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_ZLIB if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3_ZLIB if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SSL if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3_SSL if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SINGLEDISPATCH if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON # runtime
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_BACKPORTS_ABC	if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON # runtime
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_CERTIFI if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON # runtime
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3_ZLIB
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3_SSL
 	help
 	  Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking
 	  library, originally developed at FriendFeed.