>> In bug#1023007, we discovered that `luatex`'s JIT compiler generates
>> code that uses SSE2 instructions, so `texlive-binaries` was changed to
>> require `sse2-support`.
>>
> As I understood the situation it is not luatex, which does not work on
> your computer, but just the luajit... variants.
Ah, that would be even better.
> So I could split them out into a new package, which is only needed by
> texlive-extra-utils, b/c this package tries to build
> luajit... formats.
I have had to use `texlive-extra-utils` in the past, but yes, that would
be a a big improvement.
> Seems to be a rather easy solution. Unfortunately we are late in the
> release cycle [1]
I understand that.
> and the change won't make it into the next stable release. Sorry!
I think it's OK because I should be able to install the next version
from `testing` and then pin it.
Stefan
