Subject: bug#42920: conda 4.8.3 on guix cannot activate environments

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:19:03 +0200

Dominic Martinez <[email-masked]> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>
>>> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 at 12:07, Ricardo Wurmus 
>>> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>> We have since upgraded to 4.10.3, but the problems still 
>>>> persist. Conda still
>>>> asks users to run “conda init”, which attempts to run “sudo” 
>>>> to modify
>>>> root-owned files.  It’s a big mess.
>
> I don't think conda init will ever work on Guix

Why?  It used to work just fine IIRC.  The fact that it tries to write
to root-owned files is arguably a bug in Conda.

-- 
Ricardo