My personal approach is:

- use miniconda ONLY to create a folder structure to store packages and to specify a version of python (3.10 for example)

- use jazzband/pip-tools' "pip-compile" to create a frozen/pinned manifest for all my dependencies

- use pip install to actually install libraries (keeping things stock standard here)

- wrap all the above in a Makefile so I am spared remembering all the esoteric commands I need to pull this all together

in practice, this means once I have a project together I am:

- activating a conda environment

- occasionally using 'make update' from to invoke pip-compile (adding new libraries or upgrading), and

- otherwise using 'make install' to install a known working dependency list.