diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 3cd60a46a4..51f5f6b654 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ install_requires =
   # NOTE: per issue #509 0.15.34 included in debian backports
   typing-extensions; python_version < "3.8"
 
+[options.extras_require]
+test =
+  pytest >= 6.0.1
+  pytest-cov >= 2.10.1
+  pytest-xdist >= 2.1.0
+  # Needed to avoid DeprecationWarning errors in pytest:
+  setuptools >= 49.6.0
+
 [options.entry_points]
 console_scripts =
   ansible-lint = ansiblelint.__main__:main
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 6c5a1eaebc..6c879783fa 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -20,15 +20,8 @@ deps =
   # https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70705
   ansibledevel: ansible>=2.10.0a1,<2.11
   ansibledevel: ansible-base @ git+https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
-  ruamel.yaml==0.16.5  # NOTE: 0.15.34 has issues with py37
-  flake8
-  pep8-naming
-  pytest
-  pytest-cov
-  pytest-xdist
-  # Needed to avoid DeprecationWarning errors in pytest:
-  setuptools >= 40.4.3
-  wheel
+extras =
+  test
 commands =
   # safety measure to assure we do not accidentaly run tests with broken dependencies
   python -m pip check