Daniel Holth

### Checklist - [x] I added a descriptive title - [x] I searched open reports and couldn't find a duplicate ### What happened? Due to `requests` defaults, conda remembers cookies...

### Description Faster than `ThreadPoolExecutor` since there is true parallelism but a bit more expensive to initialize. ### Checklist - did you ... - [ ] Add a file to...

### Checklist - [x] I added a descriptive title - [x] I searched for other speed issues and didn't find a duplicate ### What happened? I wanted to understand how...

Read cache preserving etag

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### Description Expand on the "binary or text" cache feature. Meant to let us avoid [directly reading cache metadata in conda-libmamba-solver](https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/blob/main/conda_libmamba_solver/shards.py#L572). The state should probably have a method to return...

MatchSpec squashes URL channels in the form of file://some/folder::package or https://example.org/some/folder::package

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### Checklist - [x] I added a descriptive title - [x] I searched open reports and couldn't find a duplicate ### What happened? `MatchSpec` appears to reinterpret URL channels to...

### What happened? conda-build still uses libarchive e.g. in `conda_build/utils.py`, but conda-package-handling only uses Python standard libraries plus zstandard. It could probably get by without libarchive, which also causes [other...

reduce libarchive usage

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### Description Initial sketch to fix #5788 ### Checklist - did you ... - [ ] Add a file to the `news` directory ([using the template](https://github.com/conda/conda-build/blob/main/news/TEMPLATE)) for the next release's...