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		woodson on Jan 12, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments ... Python packages (distributed via the Python package index, PyPI) can also be general binary packages. Try pip install cmake, for example.

agoose77 on Jan 13, 2025 [–]

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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