.conda and .condarc

[DhruvaSambrani]

I do not know the norm

[b3nj5m1n]

Hi! I don't use this myself, so I didn't have the chance to try it out when I went through the arch wiki article.

According to that, the following files exist:

• ~/.conda/.condarc
• ~/.conda/condarc
• ~/.conda/condarc.d/
• ~/.condarc

And the suggested solution is the following export:

export CONDARC="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda/condarc"

It's unclear to me if this will move just the rc file, or the directory as well, and what role the rc files in the directory play.

If you could give me some insight, that would be great!

[mxmlnkn]

For testing, you can install miniconda.

The ~/.condarc file is created by conda config. E.g., try:

> conda config --show-source
==> /home/user/.condarc <==
anaconda_upload: False

> mkdir $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda
> cp ~/.condarc "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda/condarc"
> CONDARC="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda/condarc" conda config --show-source
==> /home/user/.config/conda/condarc <==
anaconda_upload: False

==> /home/user/.condarc <==
anaconda_upload: False

> cp ~/.condarc ~/.conda/condarc
> CONDARC="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda/condarc" conda config --show-source
==> /home/user/.config/conda/condarc <==
anaconda_upload: False

==> /home/user/.conda/condarc <==
anaconda_upload: False

==> /home/user/.condarc <==
anaconda_upload: False

It's unclear to me if this will move just the rc file, or the directory as well, and what role the rc files in the directory play.

~/.conda/condarc is only yet another alternative path for condarc.

The linked list of alternative paths suggest to me that CONDARC only affects the condarc file. For the .conda folder, CONDA_ROOT would have to be set. But from the documentation it seems that conda is automatically looking inside $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda/ first. Simply moving ~/.conda there and moving ~/.condarc into ~/.conda/condarc should work.

> mv ~/.conda "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda"
> conda config --show-source
==> /home/user/.config/conda/condarc <==
anaconda_upload: False
> conda config --set anaconda_upload true
> conda config --show-source
==> /home/user/.config/conda/condarc <==
anaconda_upload: False

==> /home/user/.condarc <==
anaconda_upload: True

> export CONDARC="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda/condarc"
> export CONDA_ROOT="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda"
> rm ~/.condarc
> conda config --set anaconda_upload true
> conda config --show-source

==> /home/user/.config/conda/condarc <==
anaconda_upload: False

==> /home/user/.condarc <==
anaconda_upload: True

As the above log shows, I am unable to make miniconda use the XDG path when changing settings. Reading from XDG paths does not seem to be a problem but neither CONDARC nor CONDA_ROOT environment variables seem to work for conda config --set. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, maybe it is a bug.

[b3nj5m1n]

@mxmlnkn Thank you for the write-up, I don't have the time to properly look into this at the moment, so I'll just add conda as being unsupported and link to this issue. (5e208d2)

If you, or anyone else, finds a way to make conda respect XDG, please create a PR or let me know!

[utkarshgupta137]

There is already an issue: conda/conda#8804

[e-khurmamatov]

conda and miniconda already support configuration files in the following directories (as described in conda/conda#10982 and conda documentation):

• '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda/.condarc',
• '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda/condarc',
• '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conda/condarc.d/',
• '~/.config/conda/.condarc',
• '~/.config/conda/condarc',
• '~/.config/conda/condarc.d/'

The only issue is ~/.conda/environments.txt (as mentioned in conda/conda#8804).

conda.json might be updated accordingly.

[jrom99]

Hello, to update here, there is another file that is created by conda: aau_token (conda/conda#13453 (comment)).