diff --git a/src/librustc/Cargo.toml b/src/librustc/Cargo.toml
index 7584df82ac6..b6f3bc62dfd 100644
--- a/src/librustc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/librustc/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,33 +37,3 @@ chalk-engine = { version = "0.9.0", default-features=false }
 rustc_fs_util = { path = "../librustc_fs_util" }
 smallvec = { version = "0.6.7", features = ["union", "may_dangle"] }
 measureme = "0.3"
-
-# Note that these dependencies are a lie, they're just here to get linkage to
-# work.
-#
-# We're creating a bunch of dylibs for the compiler but we're also compiling a
-# bunch of crates.io crates. Everything in the compiler is compiled as an
-# rlib/dylib pair but all crates.io crates tend to just be rlibs. This means
-# we've got a problem for dependency graphs that look like:
-#
-#           foo - rustc_codegen_llvm
-#         /                  \
-#   rustc                     ---- rustc_driver
-#         \                     /
-#           foo - rustc_metadata
-#
-# Here the crate `foo` is linked into the `rustc_codegen_llvm` and the
-# `rustc_metadata` dylibs, meaning we've got duplicate copies! When we then
-# go to link `rustc_driver` the compiler notices this and gives us a compiler
-# error.
-#
-# To work around this problem we just add these crates.io dependencies to the
-# `rustc` crate which is a shared dependency above. That way the crate `foo`
-# shows up in the dylib for the `rustc` crate, deduplicating it and allowing
-# crates like `rustc_codegen_llvm` to use `foo` *through* the `rustc` crate.
-#
-# tl;dr; this is not needed to get `rustc` to compile, but if you remove it then
-#        later crate stop compiling. If you can remove this and everything
-#        compiles, then please feel free to do so!
-flate2 = "1.0"
-tempfile = "3.0"
diff --git a/src/librustc/lib.rs b/src/librustc/lib.rs
index 8bedbefc0a6..dc26140ace5 100644
--- a/src/librustc/lib.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/lib.rs
@@ -89,10 +89,8 @@ extern crate serialize as rustc_serialize;
 
 #[macro_use] extern crate smallvec;
 
-// Note that librustc doesn't actually depend on these crates, see the note in
-// `Cargo.toml` for this crate about why these are here.
-#[allow(unused_extern_crates)]
-extern crate flate2;
+// Use the test crate here so we depend on getopts through it. This allow tools to link to both
+// librustc_driver and libtest.
 #[allow(unused_extern_crates)]
 extern crate test;
 
diff --git a/src/librustc_codegen_llvm/Cargo.toml b/src/librustc_codegen_llvm/Cargo.toml
index 4ae8303c76d..291d32a0681 100644
--- a/src/librustc_codegen_llvm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/librustc_codegen_llvm/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ test = false
 [dependencies]
 cc = "1.0.1" # Used to locate MSVC
 num_cpus = "1.0"
+tempfile = "3.0"
 rustc-demangle = "0.1.15"
 rustc_llvm = { path = "../librustc_llvm" }
 memmap = "0.6"