diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 765966f..4fc7a67 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>ca.uhn.hapi.fhir</groupId>
         <artifactId>hapi-fhir</artifactId>
-		  <version>5.4.0</version>
+		  <version>5.4.1</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>hapi-fhir-jpaserver-starter</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/starter/AppProperties.java b/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/starter/AppProperties.java
index 6cb73d7..4c69373 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/starter/AppProperties.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/starter/AppProperties.java
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ public class AppProperties {
   private Subscription subscription = new Subscription();
   private Cors cors = null;
   private Partitioning partitioning = null;
+  private Boolean install_transitive_ig_dependencies = true;
   private Map<String, ImplementationGuide> implementationGuides = null;
 
   private Boolean lastn_enabled = false;
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ public class AppProperties {
   private Boolean use_apache_address_strategy = false;
   private Boolean use_apache_address_strategy_https = false;
 
-  public Boolean getUse_apache_address_strategy() {
+	public Boolean getUse_apache_address_strategy() {
     return use_apache_address_strategy;
   }
 
@@ -462,7 +463,15 @@ public class AppProperties {
   	 this.search_coord_queue_capacity = search_coord_queue_capacity;
   }
 
-public static class Cors {
+	public boolean getInstall_transitive_ig_dependencies() {
+		return install_transitive_ig_dependencies;
+	}
+
+	public void setInstall_transitive_ig_dependencies(boolean install_transitive_ig_dependencies) {
+		this.install_transitive_ig_dependencies = install_transitive_ig_dependencies;
+	}
+
+	public static class Cors {
     private Boolean allow_Credentials = true;
     private List<String> allowed_origin = ImmutableList.of("*");
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/starter/BaseJpaRestfulServer.java b/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/starter/BaseJpaRestfulServer.java
index 6af8085..cf4c16c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/starter/BaseJpaRestfulServer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/starter/BaseJpaRestfulServer.java
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ import ca.uhn.fhir.rest.server.util.ISearchParamRegistry;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.validation.IValidatorModule;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.validation.ResultSeverityEnum;
 import com.google.common.base.Strings;
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import org.hl7.fhir.r4.model.Bundle.BundleType;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
@@ -365,12 +366,16 @@ public class BaseJpaRestfulServer extends RestfulServer {
     if (appProperties.getImplementationGuides() != null) {
       Map<String, AppProperties.ImplementationGuide> guides = appProperties.getImplementationGuides();
       for (Map.Entry<String, AppProperties.ImplementationGuide> guide : guides.entrySet()) {
-			packageInstallerSvc.install(new PackageInstallationSpec()
+			PackageInstallationSpec packageInstallationSpec = new PackageInstallationSpec()
 				.setPackageUrl(guide.getValue().getUrl())
 				.setName(guide.getValue().getName())
-				.setVersion(guide.getValue().getVersion())
-				.setInstallMode(PackageInstallationSpec.InstallModeEnum.STORE_AND_INSTALL));
-
+				.setVersion(guide.getValue().getVersion());
+			if(appProperties.getInstall_transitive_ig_dependencies()) {
+				packageInstallationSpec.setFetchDependencies(true)
+					.setInstallMode(PackageInstallationSpec.InstallModeEnum.STORE_AND_INSTALL);
+				packageInstallationSpec.setDependencyExcludes(ImmutableList.of("hl7.fhir.r2.core", "hl7.fhir.r3.core", "hl7.fhir.r4.core", "hl7.fhir.r5.core"));
+			}
+			packageInstallerSvc.install(packageInstallationSpec);
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.yaml b/src/main/resources/application.yaml
index a6e23f4..005ccb9 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.yaml
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.yaml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ hapi:
 ### enable to set the Server URL
 #    server_address: http://hapi.fhir.org/baseR4
 #    defer_indexing_for_codesystems_of_size: 101
+#    install_transitive_ig_dependencies: true
 #    implementationguides:
 ###    example from registry (packages.fhir.org)
 #      swiss: