CEP XXXX: Management and structure of conda environments

[jaimergp]

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• [X] I am submitting a new CEP: Standardize conda environment creation and directory structure.
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[jaimergp]

I may expand the scope of this into "Creation of conda environments" and also discuss the operations required to (extract and) link packages, record their metadata, etc. Otherwise we risk inconsistencies when we later standardize that part.

[jaimergp]

I updated the package_record schemas at https://github.com/conda/schemas/pull/26 to support this CEP.