Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> writes:

>> It would be better to avoid this huge monolithic package.  Does
>> texlive-tiny work?  If it doesn’t: what else does it need that could be
>> added to a texlive-union?
>
> texlive-tiny doesn't work, and after experimenting for about an hour
> I have given up on finding a small combination of packages for
> a texlive-union. It needs ifluatex.sty which apparently is part of
> texlive-latex-oberdiek, but if I add that package the test fails
> in creating a temporary directory for whatever reason.

The attached thing works for me: