jaimergp

xref https://github.com/conda/menuinst/pull/263

FYI conda-libmamba-solver 24.11.0rc is out, which bumped the minimum Python version to 3.9. Same with the upcoming menuinst. This will restrict which versions conda is installable with for the next...

Added https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/14368 and https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/5525 to see how it would look like.

pre-commit.ci autofix

Still an issue.

I think if we make the default value of `channels` just an empty list `[]` as per #14178, this problem goes away.

They way I see this is: - A fresh, barebones `conda` installation (e.g. from source) doesn't have `channels` defined. Miniconda and Miniforge would provide their own `ROOT_PREFIX/condarc` file, defining `channels`...

The issue is out of sync metadata between `conda-meta/numpy-*.json` and `${site_packages}/numpy-*.dist-info`. `conda` tries to reconcile them, but since both are present (user didn't run `pip uninstall`, and `conda` won't run...

Opened https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/14181

Some alternatives include `conda repoquery search` and `conda repoquery whoneeds` (part of the conda-libmamba-solver), and [`conda-tree`](https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-tree). ``` $ conda repoquery search --pretty mkl mkl 2023.1.0 h6d00ec8_46342 (+ 2 builds) ────────────────────────────────────────...