diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 34da334..e628e35 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ maintenance = { status = "experimental" }
 [features]
 default = ["multi-threaded", "json"]
 multi-threaded = ["rayon"]
-infer-backend = []
-xdg-mime-backend = []
+infer-backend = ["infer"]
+xdg-mime-backend = ["xdg-mime"]
 json = ["serde", "serde_json"]
 
 [dependencies]
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ log = "0.4.14"
 mime_guess = { package = "new_mime_guess", version = "2.1.0" }
 snailquote = "0.3.0"
 once_cell = "1.7.2"
-infer = "0.4.0"
 rayon = { version = "1.5.0", optional = true }
 exitcode = "1.1.2"
 cfg-if = "1.0.0"
@@ -38,8 +37,13 @@ itertools = "0.10.0"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 
+[target.'cfg(not(unix))'.dependencies]
+xdg-mime = { version = "0.3.3", optional = true }
+infer = "0.4.0"
+
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
 xdg-mime = "0.3.3"
+infer = { version = "0.4.0", optional = true}
 
 [target.'cfg(not(all(target_endian = "big", target_pointer_width = "32")))'.dependencies]
 smartstring = "0.2.6"