diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 93d9c822c..6bbfc5ce0 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ option(HERMES_ENABLE_MPIIO_ADAPTER "Build the Hermes MPI-IO adapter." OFF)
 option(HERMES_ENABLE_VFD "Build the Hermes HDF5 Virtual File Driver" OFF)
 option(HERMES_ENABLE_PUBSUB_ADAPTER "Build the Hermes pub/sub adapter." OFF)
 option(HERMES_ENABLE_KVSTORE "Build the Hermes KVStore adapter." OFF)
-option(HERMES_ENABLE_PYTHON "Build the Hermes Python wrapper" ON)
-option(HERMES_ENABLE_ADIOS "Build the Hermes Python wrapper" ON)
+option(HERMES_ENABLE_PYTHON "Build the Hermes Python wrapper" OFF)
+option(HERMES_ENABLE_ADIOS "Build the Hermes Python wrapper" OFF)
 
 option(HERMES_MPICH "Specify that this a MPICH build" OFF)
 option(HERMES_OPENMPI "Specify that this a OpenMPI build" OFF)
diff --git a/ci/hermes/packages/hermes/package.py b/ci/hermes/packages/hermes/package.py
index 4b8ceda3b..631a1f5df 100644
--- a/ci/hermes/packages/hermes/package.py
+++ b/ci/hermes/packages/hermes/package.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ class Hermes(CMakePackage):
     variant('ares', default=False, description='Enable full libfabric install')
     variant('zmq', default=False, description='Build ZeroMQ tests')
     variant('adios', default=False, description='Build Adios tests')
+    variant('python', default=False, description='Build Python Wrapper')
     variant('encrypt', default=False, description='Build Adios tests')
     variant('compress', default=False, description='Build Adios tests')
 
@@ -73,6 +74,10 @@ def cmake_args(self):
             args.append(self.define('HERMES_ENABLE_COMPRESSION', 'ON'))
         if '+encrypt' in self.spec:
             args.append(self.define('HERMES_ENABLE_ENCRYPTION', 'ON'))
+        if '+adios' in self.spec:
+            args.append(self.define('HERMES_ENABLE_ADIOS', 'ON'))
+        if '+python' in self.spec:
+            args.append(self.define('HERMES_ENABLE_PYTHON', 'ON'))
         return args
 
     def set_include(self, env, path):