diff --git a/classes/cargo.bbclass b/classes/cargo.bbclass
index aa040aa..72e77b0 100644
--- a/classes/cargo.bbclass
+++ b/classes/cargo.bbclass
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ inherit cargo_common
 CARGO = "cargo"
 
 # We need cargo to compile for the target
-BASEDEPENDS_append_class-target = " cargo-native"
+BASEDEPENDS_append = " cargo-native"
 
 # Ensure we get the right rust variant
 DEPENDS_append_class-target = " virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}rust ${RUSTLIB_DEP}"
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/cargo/cargo.inc b/recipes-devtools/cargo/cargo.inc
index 914c3e2..9645b90 100644
--- a/recipes-devtools/cargo/cargo.inc
+++ b/recipes-devtools/cargo/cargo.inc
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ export LIBSSH2_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG = "1"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
 
-# When building cargo-native we don't have a built cargo to use so we must use
-# the snapshot to bootstrap the build of cargo
+# When building cargo-native we don't have cargo-native to use and depend on,
+# so we must use the locally set up snapshot to bootstrap the build.
+BASEDEPENDS_remove_class-native = "cargo-native"
 CARGO_class-native = "${WORKDIR}/${CARGO_SNAPSHOT}/bin/cargo"