diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index ac17c15c..e16beb2f 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ name = "Polynomials"
 uuid = "f27b6e38-b328-58d1-80ce-0feddd5e7a45"
 license = "MIT"
 author = "JuliaMath"
-version = "4.0.10"
+version = "4.0.11"
 
 [deps]
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 RecipesBase = "3cdcf5f2-1ef4-517c-9805-6587b60abb01"
+Requires = "ae029012-a4dd-5104-9daa-d747884805df"
 Setfield = "efcf1570-3423-57d1-acb7-fd33fddbac46"
 SparseArrays = "2f01184e-e22b-5df5-ae63-d93ebab69eaf"
 
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ MakieCore = "0.6,0.7, 0.8"
 MutableArithmetics = "1"
 OffsetArrays = "1"
 RecipesBase = "0.7, 0.8, 1"
+Requires = "1.0"
 Setfield = "1"
 SparseArrays = "1.6"
 SpecialFunctions = "1,2"
@@ -54,4 +56,5 @@ SpecialFunctions = "276daf66-3868-5448-9aa4-cd146d93841b"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["Aqua", "ChainRulesCore", "DualNumbers", "FFTW", "LinearAlgebra", "MakieCore", "MutableArithmetics", "SparseArrays", "OffsetArrays", "SpecialFunctions", "Test"]
+test = ["Aqua", "ChainRulesCore", "DualNumbers", "FFTW", "LinearAlgebra",
+"MutableArithmetics", "SparseArrays", "OffsetArrays", "SpecialFunctions", "Test"]
diff --git a/src/Polynomials.jl b/src/Polynomials.jl
index af6de8ec..821e511e 100644
--- a/src/Polynomials.jl
+++ b/src/Polynomials.jl
@@ -60,10 +60,16 @@ include("rational-functions/plot-recipes.jl")
 include("legacy/misc.jl")
 include("legacy/Poly.jl")
 
-if !isdefined(Base, :get_extension)
-    include("../ext/PolynomialsMakieCoreExt.jl")
+include("precompiles.jl")
+
+@static if !isdefined(Base, :get_extension)
+    using Requires
 end
 
-include("precompiles.jl")
+function __init__()
+    @static if !isdefined(Base, :get_extension)
+        @require MakieCore = "20f20a25-4f0e-4fdf-b5d1-57303727442b" include("../ext/PolynomialsMakieCoreExt.jl")
+    end
+end
 
 end # module
diff --git a/test/aqua.jl b/test/aqua.jl
index fb939adc..b7b3f05e 100644
--- a/test/aqua.jl
+++ b/test/aqua.jl
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 using Aqua
 
-Aqua.test_all(Polynomials)
+Aqua.test_all(Polynomials; stale_deps=(;ignore=[:Requires]))