[Repronim-trd3] Niceman installation behavior questions

[Robert Buccigrossi]

Yarik,

  In working on installing a conda environment I have two questions (which
I'll bring up in today's meeting, but wanted to give you a moment to
ponder) :

1) *Temp directories for installation - *I need to download conda somewhere
before I install it into its final location.  Conda itself uses
tempfile.mkdtemp() to store its temporary downloads, but that doesn't work
in the context of sessions. So I'm pondering "mktemp -d". Do we do
something similar that I didn't find?

2) *Placing environments* - Right now I'm looking at placing conda
environments in the directory specified by the specs (sort of obvious).
This works perfectly on dockers and other ephemeral environments, but may
be destructive on a local shell.  So I was going to quit if the environment
already existed.  Is that OK behavior?  Could a future feature request be
to provide an installation prefix for local shell installs?

Butch
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