compliation failure of minimal latex documents

[Joseph Wright]

On 04/02/2020 20:37, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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.

I suspect the flow has been something like

- Install l3kernel some time ago, before l3backend was a dep
- Update just LaTeX
- Find the issue

Joseph