diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 33f6d9aee..f67f81aeb 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -168,9 +168,17 @@ config CONFIG_STATIC
 
 	  Most people will leave this set to 'N'.
 
+# The busybox shared library feature is there so make standalone can produce
+# smaller applets.  Since make standalone isn't in yet, there's nothing using
+# this yet, and so it's disabled.
+config CONFIG_DISABLE_SHARED
+	bool
+	default n
+
 config CONFIG_BUILD_LIBBUSYBOX
 	bool "Build shared libbusybox"
-	default y
+	default n
+	depends on CONFIG_DISABLE_SHARED
 	help
 	  Build a shared library libbusybox.so which contains all
 	  libraries used inside busybox.