diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/README.md b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/README.md
index 88e0c942..f92e1593 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/README.md
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/README.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 ## Install
 
 ```
-> npm install ipfs-unixfs-exporter
+> npm install ipfs-unixfs-exporter ipfs-unixfs
 ```
 
 ## Usage
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/package.json b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/package.json
index c183144f..a5135d21 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/package.json
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/package.json
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
     "detect-node": "^2.0.4",
     "dirty-chai": "^2.0.1",
     "ipfs-unixfs-importer": "^1.0.3",
+    "ipfs-unixfs": "^1.0.1",
     "ipld": "^0.25.0",
     "ipld-dag-pb": "^0.18.0",
     "ipld-in-memory": "^3.0.0",
@@ -54,8 +55,10 @@
     "cids": "^0.8.0",
     "err-code": "^2.0.0",
     "hamt-sharding": "^1.0.0",
-    "ipfs-unixfs": "^1.0.1",
     "it-last": "^1.0.1",
     "multihashing-async": "^0.8.0"
+  },
+  "peerDependencies": {
+    "ipfs-unixfs": "^1.0.1"
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/README.md b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/README.md
index d9ef06e2..4f65bba3 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/README.md
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/README.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 ## Install
 
 ```
-> npm install ipfs-unixfs-importer
+> npm install ipfs-unixfs-importer ipfs-unixfs
 ```
 
 ## Usage
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/package.json b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/package.json
index f4581d8a..e014d1a2 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/package.json
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/package.json
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
     "detect-node": "^2.0.4",
     "dirty-chai": "^2.0.1",
     "ipfs-unixfs-exporter": "^1.0.3",
+    "ipfs-unixfs": "^1.0.1",
     "ipld": "^0.25.0",
     "ipld-in-memory": "^3.0.0",
     "it-buffer-stream": "^1.0.0",
@@ -53,7 +54,6 @@
     "bl": "^4.0.0",
     "err-code": "^2.0.0",
     "hamt-sharding": "^1.0.0",
-    "ipfs-unixfs": "^1.0.1",
     "ipld-dag-pb": "^0.18.0",
     "it-all": "^1.0.1",
     "it-batch": "^1.0.3",
@@ -63,5 +63,8 @@
     "multicodec": "^1.0.0",
     "multihashing-async": "^0.8.0",
     "rabin-wasm": "^0.1.1"
+  },
+  "peerDependencies": {
+    "ipfs-unixfs": "^1.0.1"
   }
 }