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Recommend mambaforge? #9

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maxnoe opened this issue Jun 18, 2022 · 2 comments
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Recommend mambaforge? #9

maxnoe opened this issue Jun 18, 2022 · 2 comments

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@maxnoe
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maxnoe commented Jun 18, 2022

Readme recommends a full anaconda install and then install mamba and creating an environment.

This has several problems in my experience:

  • a lot of wasted space for the full anaconda env
  • A large base env will inadvertently make upgrading conda/mamba hard due to "solving environment" issues
  • Installing mamba itself might fail due to conda being slow solving the large environment with all the packages in conda-forge

Solution: Let people install mambaforge (Miniconda with preinstalled mamba from: https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge#mambaforge)

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Alternatively, we could use the libmamba solver:
https://www.anaconda.com/blog/a-faster-conda-for-a-growing-community

But it's still tagged as experimental - we might run into issues?

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maxnoe commented Jun 19, 2022

Ha, that a development I didn't know yet.

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