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I guess Conda has its audience, but I would scoff at using anything absolutely requiring it.

Several years ago when I had to build a custom package manager/build tool to solve this use case, I wish I could've just scoffed :)

None of the packages I use under Linux require Conda.

Is this Jupyter-related, one wonders?

It wasn't Jupyter related, but I can't remember which specific packages it was. It was quite a few years ago