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The first thing I do (or rather, ansible does) on any new PC or server is install Miniconda to a location inside my home folder, and set it as the first item in my PATH.

I’ve been down most of the python installation and packaging rabbit holes, and this practice has served me well.

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The fact that anaconda actually has to hack your path variables and your bashrc doesn't strike you as a recipe for disaster?

Yeah it always did squick me out that it needed to do that, while also having a special binary manage all the commands. Explicitly, why is 'conda' in my path, but then I need to run 'conda init $shell' to make it really work. It should be handling that internally all by itself, without any help...

I don’t use this method. I set the path myself, and it works without anything else.

Yeah, you can do that, but it rubs me the wrong way that that’s not recommended and the tool will complain more often than not (even if it works)

I mean, no more so than having poetry or pyenv do some special magic to hopefully give me the right environment?

Maybe it’s more brittle than I’m imagining, but I’ve been doing this for years and have never had it break.

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