diff --git a/fuzz/Cargo.lock b/fuzz/Cargo.lock
index f224e04375a..989bce43f87 100644
--- a/fuzz/Cargo.lock
+++ b/fuzz/Cargo.lock
@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ checksum = "175812e0be2bccb6abe50bb8d566126198344f707e304f45c648fd8f2cc0365e"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "cc"
-version = "1.2.46"
+version = "1.2.48"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b97463e1064cb1b1c1384ad0a0b9c8abd0988e2a91f52606c80ef14aadb63e36"
+checksum = "c481bdbf0ed3b892f6f806287d72acd515b352a4ec27a208489b8c1bc839633a"
 dependencies = [
  "find-msvc-tools",
  "jobserver",
@@ -231,18 +231,18 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap"
-version = "4.5.51"
+version = "4.5.53"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4c26d721170e0295f191a69bd9a1f93efcdb0aff38684b61ab5750468972e5f5"
+checksum = "c9e340e012a1bf4935f5282ed1436d1489548e8f72308207ea5df0e23d2d03f8"
 dependencies = [
  "clap_builder",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap_builder"
-version = "4.5.51"
+version = "4.5.53"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "75835f0c7bf681bfd05abe44e965760fea999a5286c6eb2d59883634fd02011a"
+checksum = "d76b5d13eaa18c901fd2f7fca939fefe3a0727a953561fefdf3b2922b8569d00"
 dependencies = [
  "anstream",
  "anstyle",
@@ -325,9 +325,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "crc"
-version = "3.3.0"
+version = "3.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9710d3b3739c2e349eb44fe848ad0b7c8cb1e42bd87ee49371df2f7acaf3e675"
+checksum = "5eb8a2a1cd12ab0d987a5d5e825195d372001a4094a0376319d5a0ad71c1ba0d"
 dependencies = [
  "crc-catalog",
 ]
@@ -875,9 +875,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "js-sys"
-version = "0.3.82"
+version = "0.3.83"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b011eec8cc36da2aab2d5cff675ec18454fad408585853910a202391cf9f8e65"
+checksum = "464a3709c7f55f1f721e5389aa6ea4e3bc6aba669353300af094b29ffbdde1d8"
 dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "wasm-bindgen",
@@ -894,9 +894,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libc"
-version = "0.2.177"
+version = "0.2.178"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2874a2af47a2325c2001a6e6fad9b16a53b802102b528163885171cf92b15976"
+checksum = "37c93d8daa9d8a012fd8ab92f088405fb202ea0b6ab73ee2482ae66af4f42091"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libfuzzer-sys"
@@ -928,9 +928,9 @@ checksum = "6373607a59f0be73a39b6fe456b8192fcc3585f602af20751600e974dd455e77"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "log"
-version = "0.4.28"
+version = "0.4.29"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "34080505efa8e45a4b816c349525ebe327ceaa8559756f0356cba97ef3bf7432"
+checksum = "5e5032e24019045c762d3c0f28f5b6b8bbf38563a65908389bf7978758920897"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "md-5"
@@ -1083,9 +1083,9 @@ checksum = "1a80800c0488c3a21695ea981a54918fbb37abf04f4d0720c453632255e2ff0e"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "parse_datetime"
-version = "0.13.2"
+version = "0.13.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e4955561bc7aa4c40afcfd2a8c34297b13164ae9ac3b30ac348737befdc98e4c"
+checksum = "acea383beda9652270f3c9678d83aa58cbfc16880343cae0c0c8c7d6c0974132"
 dependencies = [
  "jiff",
  "num-traits",
@@ -1417,9 +1417,9 @@ checksum = "7da8b5736845d9f2fcb837ea5d9e2628564b3b043a70948a3f0b778838c5fb4f"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
-version = "2.0.110"
+version = "2.0.111"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a99801b5bd34ede4cf3fc688c5919368fea4e4814a4664359503e6015b280aea"
+checksum = "390cc9a294ab71bdb1aa2e99d13be9c753cd2d7bd6560c77118597410c4d2e87"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -1737,7 +1737,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "bigdecimal",
  "blake2b_simd",
  "blake3",
- "bstr",
  "clap",
  "crc-fast",
  "data-encoding",
@@ -1846,9 +1845,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wasm-bindgen"
-version = "0.2.105"
+version = "0.2.106"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "da95793dfc411fbbd93f5be7715b0578ec61fe87cb1a42b12eb625caa5c5ea60"
+checksum = "0d759f433fa64a2d763d1340820e46e111a7a5ab75f993d1852d70b03dbb80fd"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "once_cell",
@@ -1859,9 +1858,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wasm-bindgen-macro"
-version = "0.2.105"
+version = "0.2.106"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "04264334509e04a7bf8690f2384ef5265f05143a4bff3889ab7a3269adab59c2"
+checksum = "48cb0d2638f8baedbc542ed444afc0644a29166f1595371af4fecf8ce1e7eeb3"
 dependencies = [
  "quote",
  "wasm-bindgen-macro-support",
@@ -1869,9 +1868,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wasm-bindgen-macro-support"
-version = "0.2.105"
+version = "0.2.106"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "420bc339d9f322e562942d52e115d57e950d12d88983a14c79b86859ee6c7ebc"
+checksum = "cefb59d5cd5f92d9dcf80e4683949f15ca4b511f4ac0a6e14d4e1ac60c6ecd40"
 dependencies = [
  "bumpalo",
  "proc-macro2",
@@ -1882,9 +1881,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wasm-bindgen-shared"
-version = "0.2.105"
+version = "0.2.106"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "76f218a38c84bcb33c25ec7059b07847d465ce0e0a76b995e134a45adcb6af76"
+checksum = "cbc538057e648b67f72a982e708d485b2efa771e1ac05fec311f9f63e5800db4"
 dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
@@ -2051,9 +2050,9 @@ checksum = "d6bbff5f0aada427a1e5a6da5f1f98158182f26556f345ac9e04d36d0ebed650"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "winnow"
-version = "0.7.13"
+version = "0.7.14"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "21a0236b59786fed61e2a80582dd500fe61f18b5dca67a4a067d0bc9039339cf"
+checksum = "5a5364e9d77fcdeeaa6062ced926ee3381faa2ee02d3eb83a5c27a8825540829"
 dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
@@ -2107,18 +2106,18 @@ checksum = "9b3a41ce106832b4da1c065baa4c31cf640cf965fa1483816402b7f6b96f0a64"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zerocopy"
-version = "0.8.27"
+version = "0.8.31"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0894878a5fa3edfd6da3f88c4805f4c8558e2b996227a3d864f47fe11e38282c"
+checksum = "fd74ec98b9250adb3ca554bdde269adf631549f51d8a8f8f0a10b50f1cb298c3"
 dependencies = [
  "zerocopy-derive",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zerocopy-derive"
-version = "0.8.27"
+version = "0.8.31"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "88d2b8d9c68ad2b9e4340d7832716a4d21a22a1154777ad56ea55c51a9cf3831"
+checksum = "d8a8d209fdf45cf5138cbb5a506f6b52522a25afccc534d1475dad8e31105c6a"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/src/uu/dd/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/dd/Cargo.toml
index 4633bc06b72..d1ac79fb52e 100644
--- a/src/uu/dd/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/dd/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ gcd = { workspace = true }
 libc = { workspace = true }
 uucore = { workspace = true, features = [
   "format",
-  "parser",
+  "parser-size",
   "quoting-style",
   "fs",
 ] }
diff --git a/src/uu/df/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/df/Cargo.toml
index 8f0d7d082d7..93017870ddb 100644
--- a/src/uu/df/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/df/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ path = "src/df.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = { workspace = true }
-uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["libc", "fsext", "parser", "fs"] }
+uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["libc", "fsext", "parser-size", "fs"] }
 unicode-width = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/src/uu/du/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/du/Cargo.toml
index 87898811fee..1241746e735 100644
--- a/src/uu/du/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/du/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ clap = { workspace = true }
 uucore = { workspace = true, features = [
   "format",
   "fsext",
-  "parser",
+  "parser-size",
+  "parser-glob",
   "time",
   "safe-traversal",
 ] }
diff --git a/src/uu/head/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/head/Cargo.toml
index 9ee84db3da9..2c0e18c1af2 100644
--- a/src/uu/head/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/head/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ clap = { workspace = true }
 memchr = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
 uucore = { workspace = true, features = [
-  "parser",
+  "parser-size",
   "ringbuffer",
   "lines",
   "fs",
diff --git a/src/uu/ls/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/ls/Cargo.toml
index 5fab6761441..e6cd07fa4a9 100644
--- a/src/uu/ls/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/ls/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ uucore = { workspace = true, features = [
   "fs",
   "fsext",
   "fsxattr",
-  "parser",
+  "parser-size",
+  "parser-glob",
   "quoting-style",
   "time",
   "version-cmp",
diff --git a/src/uu/od/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/od/Cargo.toml
index 97676a86e0a..13d12a413c6 100644
--- a/src/uu/od/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/od/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ path = "src/od.rs"
 byteorder = { workspace = true }
 clap = { workspace = true }
 half = { workspace = true }
-uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["parser"] }
+uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["parser-size"] }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
 libc.workspace = true
 
diff --git a/src/uu/shred/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/shred/Cargo.toml
index 9f5294d3b84..59f0fb6c26f 100644
--- a/src/uu/shred/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/shred/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ path = "src/shred.rs"
 [dependencies]
 clap = { workspace = true }
 rand = { workspace = true }
-uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["parser"] }
+uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["parser-size"] }
 libc = { workspace = true }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
 
diff --git a/src/uu/sort/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/sort/Cargo.toml
index c1b4c07084c..e65f70d5a28 100644
--- a/src/uu/sort/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/sort/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ self_cell = { workspace = true }
 tempfile = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
 unicode-width = { workspace = true }
-uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "parser", "version-cmp"] }
+uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "parser-size", "version-cmp"] }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
 nix = { workspace = true }
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ tempfile = { workspace = true }
 uucore = { workspace = true, features = [
   "benchmark",
   "fs",
-  "parser",
+  "parser-size",
   "version-cmp",
   "i18n-collator",
 ] }
diff --git a/src/uu/split/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/split/Cargo.toml
index d6cf871ace3..2c51bb7807a 100644
--- a/src/uu/split/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/split/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ path = "src/split.rs"
 [dependencies]
 clap = { workspace = true }
 memchr = { workspace = true }
-uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "parser"] }
+uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "parser-size"] }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
 
diff --git a/src/uu/stdbuf/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/stdbuf/Cargo.toml
index ce64792b7ec..cb544502602 100644
--- a/src/uu/stdbuf/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/stdbuf/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ path = "src/stdbuf.rs"
 clap = { workspace = true }
 libstdbuf = { package = "uu_stdbuf_libstdbuf", version = "0.4.0", path = "src/libstdbuf" }
 tempfile = { workspace = true }
-uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["parser"] }
+uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["parser-size"] }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
 
diff --git a/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml
index bf8952759ef..7d7b57a74a3 100644
--- a/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/tail/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ clap = { workspace = true }
 libc = { workspace = true }
 memchr = { workspace = true }
 notify = { workspace = true }
-uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "parser"] }
+uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "parser-size"] }
 same-file = { workspace = true }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
 
diff --git a/src/uu/truncate/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/truncate/Cargo.toml
index 29eeaccecd0..07ab63e6db4 100644
--- a/src/uu/truncate/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/truncate/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ path = "src/truncate.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = { workspace = true }
-uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["parser"] }
+uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["parser-size"] }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
 
 [[bin]]
diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index 46b2f9daaf5..4e056e6cbe5 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ workspace = true
 path = "src/lib/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-bstr = { workspace = true }
+bstr = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 clap = { workspace = true }
 uucore_procs = { workspace = true }
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ xattr = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tempfile = { workspace = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
-procfs = { workspace = true }
+procfs = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "windows")'.dependencies]
 winapi-util = { workspace = true, optional = true }
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ entries = ["libc"]
 extendedbigdecimal = ["bigdecimal", "num-traits"]
 fast-inc = []
 fs = ["dunce", "libc", "winapi-util", "windows-sys"]
-fsext = ["libc", "windows-sys"]
+fsext = ["libc", "windows-sys", "bstr"]
 fsxattr = ["xattr"]
 hardware = []
 lines = []
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ format = [
   "bigdecimal",
   "extendedbigdecimal",
   "itertools",
-  "parser",
+  "parser-num",
   "num-traits",
   "quoting-style",
 ]
@@ -149,7 +149,10 @@ i18n-decimal = ["i18n-common", "icu_decimal", "icu_provider"]
 mode = ["libc"]
 perms = ["entries", "libc", "walkdir"]
 buf-copy = []
-parser = ["extendedbigdecimal", "glob", "num-traits"]
+parser-num = ["extendedbigdecimal", "num-traits"]
+parser-size = ["parser-num", "procfs"]
+parser-glob = ["glob"]
+parser = ["parser-num", "parser-size", "parser-glob"]
 pipes = []
 process = ["libc"]
 proc-info = ["tty", "walkdir"]
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs
index 6d239642a1f..548f7f2bc95 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs
@@ -32,7 +32,12 @@ pub mod fsext;
 pub mod i18n;
 #[cfg(feature = "lines")]
 pub mod lines;
-#[cfg(feature = "parser")]
+#[cfg(any(
+    feature = "parser",
+    feature = "parser-num",
+    feature = "parser-size",
+    feature = "parser-glob"
+))]
 pub mod parser;
 #[cfg(feature = "quoting-style")]
 pub mod quoting_style;
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/parser/mod.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/parser/mod.rs
index 800fe6e8ca1..d2fc2772100 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/parser/mod.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/parser/mod.rs
@@ -4,8 +4,13 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 // spell-checker:ignore extendedbigdecimal
 
+#[cfg(any(feature = "parser", feature = "parser-num"))]
 pub mod num_parser;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "parser", feature = "parser-glob"))]
 pub mod parse_glob;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "parser", feature = "parser-size"))]
 pub mod parse_size;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "parser", feature = "parser-num"))]
 pub mod parse_time;
+#[cfg(any(feature = "parser", feature = "parser-num"))]
 pub mod shortcut_value_parser;
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs
index 5459c5d5468..e4e871a5fa1 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs
@@ -60,7 +60,12 @@ pub use crate::features::hardware;
 pub use crate::features::i18n;
 #[cfg(feature = "lines")]
 pub use crate::features::lines;
-#[cfg(feature = "parser")]
+#[cfg(any(
+    feature = "parser",
+    feature = "parser-num",
+    feature = "parser-size",
+    feature = "parser-glob"
+))]
 pub use crate::features::parser;
 #[cfg(feature = "quoting-style")]
 pub use crate::features::quoting_style;