We have found that mamba (fast alternate front end instead of conda) and micromamba entirely fixes this issue for us. IMO “conda install” is entirely unfit for

We have found that mamba (fast alternate front end instead of conda) and micromamba entirely fixes this issue for us. IMO “conda install” is entirely unfit for purpose and probably puts lots of people off of the ecosystem (15 minutes for megabytes of error messages often in the case of unresolved dependency trees). Our CI was often spending more time running conda than running our test suite. I assume there is some political difference or acrimony which means the actual sources about core conda are entirely silent on the issue - I’ve privately replied to people expressing concern over this on the conda mailing list several times and people are always relieved to know there is a solution. Seriously, it’s the only way we can tolerate using conda as an ecosystem any more, and only ever feel this pain of 15-20 minute feedback cycles preparing packages with conda-build (for which boa is a promising new replacement we haven’t moved to yet)