Spring Security Spring security without spring or spring boot

The documentation says spring security can be used without spring boot (https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/getting-spring-security.html#getting-maven-no-boot) but is it possible to use spring security independently without spring or spring boot. When I checked the same thing in StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78922871/spring-security-without-spring-and-spring-boot) - "Yes spring security requires spring auto configuration mechanism without it won’t work". But I am not finding any document which mentions that we cannot.