The magic has a lot of similarities to how nix packaging works. Using patchelf for example. Both nix and the conda communities have been at this for years, so t

The magic has a lot of similarities to how nix packaging works. Using patchelf for example. Both nix and the conda communities have been at this for years, so there are large user bases with several years of production battle testing behind the techniques we use. For reference, we estimate a current 6M+ Anaconda and conda client users.