diff --git a/execution-environment.yml b/execution-environment.yml
index ad1005cc2f..4e4d10cb36 100644
--- a/execution-environment.yml
+++ b/execution-environment.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 version: 1
 dependencies:
   galaxy: requirements/collections_requirements.yml
+  system: requirements/bindep_requirements.txt
 additional_build_steps:
   prepend:
     - RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools
diff --git a/requirements/bindep_requirements.txt b/requirements/bindep_requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fe8e3c519b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements/bindep_requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+subversion [platform:rpm]
+subversion [platform:dpkg]