I would like to "hotfix" TeX Live
I gather you did. Good.
at least the formats will build and basic examples like this one:
Of course the formats must build, whatever may come. And I believe they
did even before the latest fix. (After the snafu with eplain/bplain, I
changed the tlnet update to abort if the formats do not build in the
staging test.)
\documentclass{minimal}
Off-topic ... I recall Frank (or someone from LaTeX) saying that it's
not a good practice to use \documentclass{minimal} in general for test
documents, because minimal.cls intentionally does not define many
standard things. So I just keep using {article}. (I don't recall the
details, though, i.e., why {minimal} was created in the first place.)
Thanks,
karl
