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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:268240 Archived-At: You technically can make your own msys distribution, by choosing a base package as old as you want and then installing extras from the package archives manually downloaded from msys2 binary cache. But yeah, I don't think anyone would force anyone to use the msys2-bundled installation, I just wanted to note that maintaining such distribution seems like too much work for the benefit it provides. In the ideal world we'll have something like a bundled configure-like package that would test for those POSIX utilities and then show what you're missing and maybe install them for you.