diff --git a/archiver/dpkg/dpkg.conf b/archiver/dpkg/dpkg.conf
index 456c2627e..2064bfbc9 100644
--- a/archiver/dpkg/dpkg.conf
+++ b/archiver/dpkg/dpkg.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../dpkg/dpkg.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2006 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2006 - 2010 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 #
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ if pkginstalled libselinux; then
 	var_append GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND ' ' '-lselinux'
 fi
 
-confopt="$confopt --without-sgml-doc --without-start-stop-daemon"
-
+var_append extraconfopt ' ' '--without-sgml-doc'
+var_append extraconfopt ' ' '--without-start-stop-daemon'