diff --git a/src/Package/Fetch.zig b/src/Package/Fetch.zig
index e4e944d18692..0c3c0abe6122 100644
--- a/src/Package/Fetch.zig
+++ b/src/Package/Fetch.zig
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ omit_missing_hash_error: bool,
 /// which specifies inclusion rules. This is intended to be true for the first
 /// fetch task and false for the recursive dependencies.
 allow_missing_paths_field: bool,
+tar_strip_components: u32 = 1,
 
 // Above this are fields provided as inputs to `run`.
 // Below this are fields populated by `run`.
@@ -674,6 +675,7 @@ fn queueJobsForDeps(f: *Fetch) RunError!void {
             prog_names[new_fetch_index] = dep_name;
             new_fetch_index += 1;
             f.job_queue.all_fetches.appendAssumeCapacity(new_fetch);
+
             new_fetch.* = .{
                 .arena = std.heap.ArenaAllocator.init(gpa),
                 .location = location,
@@ -687,6 +689,7 @@ fn queueJobsForDeps(f: *Fetch) RunError!void {
                 .job_queue = f.job_queue,
                 .omit_missing_hash_error = false,
                 .allow_missing_paths_field = true,
+                .tar_strip_components = dep.tar_strip_components,
 
                 .package_root = undefined,
                 .error_bundle = undefined,
@@ -867,9 +870,9 @@ const FileType = enum {
         try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(?FileType, .@"tar.xz"), fromContentDisposition("ATTACHMENT; filename=\"stuff.tar.xz\""));
         try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(?FileType, .@"tar.xz"), fromContentDisposition("attachment; FileName=\"stuff.tar.xz\""));
         try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(?FileType, .@"tar.gz"), fromContentDisposition("attachment; FileName*=UTF-8\'\'xyz%2Fstuff.tar.gz"));
+        try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(?FileType, .tar), fromContentDisposition("attachment; FileName=\"stuff.tar\""));
 
         try std.testing.expect(fromContentDisposition("attachment FileName=\"stuff.tar.gz\"") == null);
-        try std.testing.expect(fromContentDisposition("attachment; FileName=\"stuff.tar\"") == null);
         try std.testing.expect(fromContentDisposition("attachment; FileName\"stuff.gz\"") == null);
         try std.testing.expect(fromContentDisposition("attachment; size=42") == null);
         try std.testing.expect(fromContentDisposition("inline; size=42") == null);
@@ -1152,7 +1155,7 @@ fn unpackTarball(f: *Fetch, out_dir: fs.Dir, reader: anytype) RunError!void {
 
     std.tar.pipeToFileSystem(out_dir, reader, .{
         .diagnostics = &diagnostics,
-        .strip_components = 1,
+        .strip_components = f.tar_strip_components,
         // TODO: we would like to set this to executable_bit_only, but two
         // things need to happen before that:
         // 1. the tar implementation needs to support it
diff --git a/src/Package/Manifest.zig b/src/Package/Manifest.zig
index 589be91357fa..85561495e08c 100644
--- a/src/Package/Manifest.zig
+++ b/src/Package/Manifest.zig
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ pub const Dependency = struct {
     node: Ast.Node.Index,
     name_tok: Ast.TokenIndex,
     lazy: bool,
+    tar_strip_components: u32 = 1,
 
     pub const Location = union(enum) {
         url: []const u8,
@@ -307,6 +308,7 @@ const Parse = struct {
             .node = node,
             .name_tok = 0,
             .lazy = false,
+            .tar_strip_components = 1,
         };
         var has_location = false;
 
@@ -352,6 +354,11 @@ const Parse = struct {
                     error.ParseFailure => continue,
                     else => |e| return e,
                 };
+            } else if (mem.eql(u8, field_name, "tar_strip_components")) {
+                dep.tar_strip_components = parseInt(u32, p, field_init) catch |err| switch (err) {
+                    error.ParseFailure => continue,
+                    else => |e| return e,
+                };
             } else {
                 // Ignore unknown fields so that we can add fields in future zig
                 // versions without breaking older zig versions.
@@ -402,6 +409,22 @@ const Parse = struct {
         }
     }
 
+    fn parseInt(comptime T: type, p: *Parse, node: Ast.Node.Index) !T {
+        const ast = p.ast;
+        const node_tags = ast.nodes.items(.tag);
+        const main_tokens = ast.nodes.items(.main_token);
+        if (node_tags[node] != .number_literal) {
+            return fail(p, main_tokens[node], "expected identifier", .{});
+        }
+        const ident_token = main_tokens[node];
+        const token_bytes = ast.tokenSlice(ident_token);
+
+        const value: T = std.fmt.parseInt(T, token_bytes, 10) catch {
+            return fail(p, ident_token, "expected integer", .{});
+        };
+        return value;
+    }
+
     fn parseString(p: *Parse, node: Ast.Node.Index) ![]const u8 {
         const ast = p.ast;
         const node_tags = ast.nodes.items(.tag);
@@ -703,3 +726,43 @@ test "minimum_zig_version - invalid version" {
 
     try testing.expect(manifest.minimum_zig_version == null);
 }
+
+test "tar_strip_components" {
+    const gpa = testing.allocator;
+
+    const example =
+        \\.{
+        \\    .name = "foo",
+        \\    .version = "3.2.1",
+        \\    .dependencies = .{
+        \\        .bar = .{
+        \\            .url = "https://example.com/baz.tar.gz",
+        \\            .tar_strip_components = 123,
+        \\        },
+        \\    },
+        \\    .paths = .{""},
+        \\}
+    ;
+
+    var ast = try Ast.parse(gpa, example, .zon);
+    defer ast.deinit(gpa);
+
+    try testing.expect(ast.errors.len == 0);
+
+    var manifest = try Manifest.parse(gpa, ast, .{});
+    defer manifest.deinit(gpa);
+
+    try testing.expect(manifest.errors.len == 0);
+    try testing.expectEqualStrings("foo", manifest.name);
+
+    try testing.expect(manifest.dependencies.count() == 1);
+    try testing.expectEqualStrings("bar", manifest.dependencies.keys()[0]);
+    try testing.expectEqualStrings(
+        "https://example.com/baz.tar.gz",
+        manifest.dependencies.values()[0].location.url,
+    );
+    try testing.expectEqual(
+        123,
+        manifest.dependencies.values()[0].tar_strip_components,
+    );
+}