Prefix.dev - the Pixi company on Mythryl: “Ever wondered how Conda and Pixi "know" to install CUDA packages…”

Ever wondered how Conda and Pixi "know" to install CUDA packages only on GPU machines? 🤔 Meet virtual packages - a clever solution to inject system compatibility information to the SAT solver to ensure compatibility. prefix.dev/blog/virtua...

prefix.devVirtual Packages in the Conda ecosystemVirtual packages are a neat trick to inject system requirements into the SAT solver and resolve for compatible packages automatically. In this blog post we talk about how they are used in the Conda ecosystem to support complex cross-platform package distributions.

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