diff --git a/extra/e2fsprogs/build b/extra/e2fsprogs/build
index 73da29c3..4eaa5c6f 100755
--- a/extra/e2fsprogs/build
+++ b/extra/e2fsprogs/build
@@ -14,33 +14,30 @@ export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -static"
     --disable-fsck \
     --disable-elf-shlibs
 
-# MKDIR_P needs to be set or installation fails.
 make
-make MKDIR_P="mkdir -p" DESTDIR="$1" install
 
-# Our e2fsprogs build uses the private libblkid
-# and libuuid libraries which ship with it.
-#
-# It is then built statically which allows us to
-# remove the libraries entirely.
-#
-# This is all done to remove the util-linux
-# dependency from this package.
-#
-# The build system doesn't provide a target
-# for this so we must do it ourselves.
-rm -rf \
-    "$1/usr/bin/blkid" \
-    "$1/usr/bin/uuidgen" \
-    "$1/usr/bin/findfs" \
-    "$1/usr/share/man/man8/findfs.8" \
-    "$1/usr/share/man/man8/blkid.8" \
-    "$1/usr/share/man/man3/libblkid.3" \
-    "$1/usr/share/man/man3/"uuid* \
-    "$1/usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1" \
-    "$1/usr/lib/pkgconfig/uuid.pc" \
-    "$1/usr/lib/pkgconfig/blkid.pc" \
-    "$1/usr/lib/libuuid.a" \
-    "$1/usr/lib/libblkid.a" \
-    "$1/usr/include/blkid" \
-    "$1/usr/include/uuid"
+dest=$1
+
+set -- \
+    DESTDIR="$dest" \
+    MKDIR_P="mkdir -p" \
+    BLKID_MAN="" \
+    BLKID_PROG="" \
+    FINDFS_LINK="" \
+    FINDFS_MAN="" \
+    UMANPAGES="chattr.1 lsattr.1" \
+    UPROGS="chattr lsattr"
+
+for p in \
+    debugfs \
+    e2fsck \
+    lib/e2p \
+    lib/et \
+    lib/ext2fs \
+    lib/ss \
+    misc \
+    resize \
+    scrub
+do
+    make -C "$p" "$@" install
+done