I found the same python package in two different directories on my MacBook. One is in /anaconda3/pkgs/ and the other is in /anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages. I wonder what the folder /anaconda3/pkgs does and can I delete the duplicate packages in there safely?
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Does this answer your question? [Is it safe to manually delete all files in pkgs folder in anaconda python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56266229/is-it-safe-to-manually-delete-all-files-in-pkgs-folder-in-anaconda-python) – user343233 Sep 18 '22 at 05:41
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The pkgs directory is conda's package cache. I would strongly recommend not to delete packages there manually. Doing so can break environments that use one of these packages.
Instead you can use conda clean -p and let conda decide which of the packages are safe to delete.
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Excellent answer because it explains why, and gives an alternate (correct) solution. If I could give it 2 votes up I would. – Rich Lysakowski PhD Mar 25 '20 at 01:42
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Most of the packages that you import in your jupyter notebooks are picked from site-packages.
