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Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments?

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On 21 Sep 2026 09:17:29 GMT, Martin Schöön wrote:
>
>> I am a full time Linux user and moved from pip to conda for managing
>> my Python life a few years ago. I am not an advanced conda user by
>> any measure. For the most part moving to conda was a good idea.
>
> My impression of Conda is that it’s more suited to Windows/Mac
> environments which lack native package management. For example, I
> don’t see a package for Conda under Debian -- surely something as
> useful as that is made out to be, would be supported. But it’s not.
>
> The most complex piece of third-party Python-based code that I install
> is Jupyter, and that goes quite nicely into a virtualenv maintained
> with pip.

I help run a Linux HPC system at a university and see Conda being used by
research mainly from the life sciences.  I think the main advantage is that
Conda also provides non-Python dependencies, such as CUDA for GPU-processing
or numerical libraries written in C, such as BLAS.  If, as Martin mentions,
you are using Windows or MacOS, this is probably quite helpful.

However, if you are on a Linux machine, the OS packages plus pip within a venv
will, in my experience, get you quite a long way.  That, together with poetry,
has been all I have needed for developing my own software with Python, but
obviously YMMV,

Cheers,

Loris

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Best practise for managing Conda environments? Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2026-09-21 09:17 +0000
  Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments? Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-21 17:32 +0800
    Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments? Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2026-09-21 20:33 +0000
      Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2026-09-21 22:05 +0000
        Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments? Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-22 14:37 +0800
          Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-09-22 07:33 +0000
          Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2026-09-22 09:08 +0000
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  Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-22 07:44 +0000
    Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments? "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2026-09-22 10:14 +0200
  Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments? Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2026-09-22 19:53 +0000
    Re: Best practise for managing Conda environments? Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-23 04:57 +0800
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