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0 pointsjph001y ago0 comments

uv can’t replace conda, any more than it can replace apt or nix.

Conda packages general binary packages, not just python packages. uv is just python packages.

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woodson1y ago· 1 in thread

Python packages (distributed via the Python package index, PyPI) can also be general binary packages. Try pip install cmake, for example.

Yes, but there are restrictions; for one thing, it's not trivial to share binary dependencies between Python packages; conda just handles that.

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