diff --git a/other-requirements.txt b/other-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f5fb3286
--- /dev/null
+++ b/other-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# This is a cross-platform list tracking distribution packages needed by tests;
+# see http://docs.openstack.org/infra/bindep/ for additional information.
+
+apt-transport-https
+build-essential [platform:dpkg]
+curl
+cyrus-sasl-devel [platform:rpm]
+dbus
+firefox [!platform:debian]
+gawk
+gettext
+iceweasel [platform:debian]
+language-pack-en [platform:ubuntu]
+libcurl-devel [platform:rpm]
+libcurl4-gnutls-dev [platform:dpkg]
+libmysqlclient-dev [platform:dpkg]
+libpq-dev [platform:dpkg]
+locales [platform:debian]
+lsb-release
+mariadb [platform:rpm]
+mariadb-devel [platform:rpm]
+mariadb-server [platform:rpm]
+mysql-client [platform:dpkg]
+mysql-server [platform:dpkg]
+openldap-devel [platform:rpm]
+pkg-config [platform:dpkg]
+pkgconfig [platform:rpm]
+postgresql
+postgresql-client [platform:dpkg]
+postgresql-devel [platform:rpm]
+postgresql-server [platform:rpm]
+python-dev [platform:dpkg]
+python-devel [platform:rpm]
+python-lxml
+python-zmq
+python3-all-dev [platform:ubuntu-trusty]
+python3-dev [platform:dpkg]
+python3-devel [platform:fedora]
+python3.4 [platform:ubuntu-trusty]
+python34-devel [platform:centos]
+sqlite [platform:rpm]
+sqlite-devel [platform:rpm]
+sqlite3 [platform:dpkg]
+uuid-dev [platform:dpkg]
+xorg-x11-server-Xvfb [platform:rpm]
+xvfb [platform:dpkg]
+zlib-devel [platform:rpm]
+zlib1g-dev [platform:dpkg]
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 7c805978..b9d605d1 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -38,3 +38,11 @@ commands =
   npm install
   {toxinidir}/node_modules/.bin/bower install --config.interactive=false
   {toxinidir}/node_modules/.bin/grunt {posargs}
+
+[testenv:bindep]
+# Do not install any requirements. We want this to be fast and work even if
+# system dependencies are missing, since it's used to tell you what system
+# dependencies are missing! This also means that bindep must be installed
+# separately, outside of the requirements files.
+deps = bindep
+commands = bindep test