[luatex] MWE now failing with recent TeX Live update

[Javier Bezos]

And something I'd like to point out:

> Babel at all cost; how do think I should explain to them that they
> should load it after all?

As I said, the `base' option in babel just preloads the
patterns. That's all -- it loads them and exits immediately.
The babel core is not loaded at all (well, except the parts
which are, unfortunately, preloaded when the format is built).

Javier