diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index eda1f6d2a3af..6a5f0b2a835e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ arrow-array = { version = ">=41", default-features = false }
 arrow-buffer = { version = ">=41", default-features = false }
 arrow-data = { version = ">=41", default-features = false }
 arrow-schema = { version = ">=41", default-features = false }
-parquet2 = { version = "0.17.2", features = ["async"] }
+parquet2 = { version = "0.17.2", features = ["async"], default-features = false }
 avro-schema = { version = "0.3" }
 
 [workspace.dependencies.arrow]
diff --git a/crates/polars-arrow/Cargo.toml b/crates/polars-arrow/Cargo.toml
index d464aad88f6b..58fb4d3ff72e 100644
--- a/crates/polars-arrow/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/polars-arrow/Cargo.toml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ arrow-array = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 arrow-buffer = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 arrow-data = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 arrow-schema = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-parquet2 = { workspace = true, optional = true, features = ["async"] }
+parquet2 = { workspace = true, optional = true, default-features = true, features = ["async"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 avro-rs = { version = "0.13", features = ["snappy"] }
diff --git a/crates/polars-error/Cargo.toml b/crates/polars-error/Cargo.toml
index 689e755e9a20..60e4800f073f 100644
--- a/crates/polars-error/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/polars-error/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ description = "Error definitions for the Polars DataFrame library"
 [dependencies]
 arrow-format = { version = "0.8.1", optional = true }
 avro-schema = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-object_store = { workspace = true, default-features = false, optional = true }
-parquet2 = { workspace = true, optional = true, default-features = false }
+object_store = { workspace = true, optional = true }
+parquet2 = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 regex = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 simdutf8 = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/polars-io/Cargo.toml b/crates/polars-io/Cargo.toml
index 26819a2c58f0..18e69c0e9647 100644
--- a/crates/polars-io/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/polars-io/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ description = "IO related logic for the Polars DataFrame library"
 
 [dependencies]
 polars-core = { workspace = true }
-polars-error = { workspace = true, default-features = false }
+polars-error = { workspace = true }
 polars-json = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 polars-time = { workspace = true, features = [], optional = true }
 polars-utils = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/polars-lazy/Cargo.toml b/crates/polars-lazy/Cargo.toml
index 785c2aeea51c..554e8eeda37d 100644
--- a/crates/polars-lazy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/polars-lazy/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ description = "Lazy query engine for the Polars DataFrame library"
 
 [dependencies]
 arrow = { workspace = true }
-polars-core = { workspace = true, features = ["lazy", "zip_with", "random"], default-features = false }
+polars-core = { workspace = true, features = ["lazy", "zip_with", "random"] }
 polars-io = { workspace = true, features = ["lazy"] }
 polars-json = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 polars-ops = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/polars-ops/Cargo.toml b/crates/polars-ops/Cargo.toml
index 72b00779d69f..1651ab8afb38 100644
--- a/crates/polars-ops/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/polars-ops/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ repository = { workspace = true }
 description = "More operations on Polars data structures"
 
 [dependencies]
-polars-core = { workspace = true, features = ["algorithm_group_by"], default-features = false }
+polars-core = { workspace = true, features = ["algorithm_group_by"] }
 polars-error = { workspace = true }
 polars-json = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-polars-utils = { workspace = true, default-features = false }
+polars-utils = { workspace = true }
 
 ahash = { workspace = true }
 argminmax = { version = "0.6.1", default-features = false, features = ["float"] }
diff --git a/crates/polars-plan/Cargo.toml b/crates/polars-plan/Cargo.toml
index 460881737b38..d70a90914835 100644
--- a/crates/polars-plan/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/polars-plan/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ doctest = false
 
 [dependencies]
 libloading = { version = "0.8.0", optional = true }
-polars-core = { workspace = true, features = ["lazy", "zip_with", "random"], default-features = false }
+polars-core = { workspace = true, features = ["lazy", "zip_with", "random"] }
 polars-ffi = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-polars-io = { workspace = true, features = ["lazy"], default-features = false }
-polars-ops = { workspace = true, features = ["zip_with"], default-features = false }
+polars-io = { workspace = true, features = ["lazy"] }
+polars-ops = { workspace = true, features = ["zip_with"] }
 polars-time = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 polars-utils = { workspace = true }
 
diff --git a/crates/polars-time/Cargo.toml b/crates/polars-time/Cargo.toml
index 77e8e861a6a1..abd23e909aa3 100644
--- a/crates/polars-time/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/polars-time/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ description = "Time related code for the Polars DataFrame library"
 
 [dependencies]
 arrow = { workspace = true, features = ["compute", "temporal"] }
-polars-core = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["dtype-datetime", "dtype-duration", "dtype-time", "dtype-date"] }
+polars-core = { workspace = true, features = ["dtype-datetime", "dtype-duration", "dtype-time", "dtype-date"] }
 polars-error = { workspace = true }
 polars-ops = { workspace = true }
 polars-utils = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/polars/Cargo.toml b/crates/polars/Cargo.toml
index 1f397e8e7aa6..165fea5806f0 100644
--- a/crates/polars/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/polars/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ description = "DataFrame library based on Apache Arrow"
 polars-algo = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 polars-core = { workspace = true }
 polars-io = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-polars-lazy = { workspace = true, default-features = false, optional = true }
+polars-lazy = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 polars-ops = { workspace = true }
 polars-sql = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 polars-time = { workspace = true, optional = true }