diff --git a/bin/table_generator b/bin/table_generator
index 9af52e2c375e5f02f3582c17a33f7b0a675b357e..6919f9302fdacb71ae60a36729753bf7e520db16 100755
--- a/bin/table_generator
+++ b/bin/table_generator
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ ignored_pkgs = [
     'basemap', # Deprecated in favour of Cartopy
     'iccifort', # Renamed to intel-compilers
     'itstool', # Renamed to ITSTool
+    'libaec', # Not used upstream in the dependencies that need it, so let's try to stay vanilla until asked for it
     'libfabric', # Not needed, since we won't install OpenMPI in JURECA booster (only place where it was relevant)
     'meld', # meld is broken (segmentation fault) and it pulls in too much packages for something not so important
     'nvptx-tools', # Integrated in GCC