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Bug#1035461: texlive-binaries: Allow install of TeXlive without SSE2



>> 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


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