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by TickleSteve 4029 days ago
It used to be like that... not anymore.

Cygwin works fine with multiple installations these days [https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.multiple-copies]

The thing that wont work is if you try to mix and match a dll from one installation with binaries from another, but I think you can agree that that situation is fair. You just need your paths setup correctly.