compliation failure of minimal latex documents

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Jack,

> > To be fair, I don't have collection-latexrecommended installed; instead I
> > have several its packages installed individually.  I try to keep my
> 
> We (TeX Live) do not guarantee that this will work, and we *never* said
> that it will work.
> 
> You seem to have l3kernel installed, but not l3backend, which is in
> collection-latexrecommended, but NOT l3backend, which is in the same
> collection.

And, in addition, you seem to have installed packages with
	--no-depends
because installing l3kernel does require already l3backend:

[~] tlmgr install l3kernel
tlmgr: package repository /home/norbert/public_html/tlnet (verified)
[1/2, ??:??/??:??] install: l3backend [12k]
[2/2, 00:00/00:00] install: l3kernel [145k]
running mktexlsr ...
done running mktexlsr.


So you obviously preferred to shoot yourself in the foot by ignoring
every single safety measure we provide.


Best

Norbert

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