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Yeah, and the CUDA 10.0 official Visual Studio demo project build was broken for... looks like a year, at least, because they didn't want to populate the toolkit path. NVidia, you're better than this.

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/the-cuda-toolkit-v10-0...

> The Conda dependency manager has made this a lot easier

Yeah but conda is "Let's do dependency management with a SAT solver, it'll be great!" On a good day, it's just slow. On a bad day, the SAT solver spins for hours before failing to converge. On a really bad day, the SAT solver does something "clever."

I've had a couple of really bad days this year. I'm really starting to not like conda very much.

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My biggest gripe with the conda depencency manager is that it doesn't keep track of which packages own which files, and if multiple packages own the same file the last one to be installed will happily scribble over whatever was there before. With hilarious results, of course.

This means that keeping a conda installation up to date is often very tricky, when upgrading you frequently have to uninstall and reinstall some packages.

It works better if you start from scratch with a requirements.yml file.

You might find https://github.com/TheSnakePit/mamba useful, especially if you are slowed down by package resolution.

That looks worth a look for sure!

Conda's SAT solver for dependency management is the bane of my existence. For pip-installable packages, I'll almost always turn to pip rather than conda even when in a conda environment.

> "Let's do dependency management with a SAT solver, it'll be great!"

Debian managed something like this over 20 years ago in dpkg. But somehow people must keep reinventing the wheel.

I thought the debian SAT solver was a maintainer tool rather than something that ran every time? In any case, conda's implementation is really quite awful by comparison and they would have been well served by copying something that works instead of building something that doesn't.

You can't use open source in an enterprise. All you can do is rewrite from scratch or hire external service. Everyone knows that.

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