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by ormax3 415 days ago
it seems possible to install GfW into an existing MSYS2:

https://gitforwindows.org/install-inside-msys2-proper

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Right, and manually extracting MSYS2 packages into an MSYS2 environment is also possible if very unsupported (used that to get a copy of rsync once). My point, rather, is that GfW isn’t and shouldn’t be your starting point if you want to get a Unix-like environment; use actual MSYS2 instead.