> like packages not being backwards compatible with old versions of conda When new capabilities are added to conda, like the ability to support noarch python p

> like packages not being backwards compatible with old versions of conda When new capabilities are added to conda, like the ability to support noarch python packages, you're going to need to be working with an up-to-date version of conda to use those packages. Just `conda update conda`. > conda going crazy and reinstalling itself Conda will pretty aggressively auto-update itself. Going crazy and reinstalling is a new one though. File an issue with details at https://github.com/conda/conda https://github.com/conda/conda > the way the conda-forge repo has far more packages than the official conda repo Conda-forge is community driven and more "upstream" than the Anaconda, Inc.-provided 'defaults' repositories. Think of conda-forge like Fedora, and 'defaults' like CentOS/RHEL.