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When creating a new virtual conda env in anaconda, is there a way possible to symlink stuff from the base directory ? I tried pip inside the new env, where it had to freshly install python again. I suppose it's a completely new python installation in pip's context. Is there a way to make the environments non-isolated to symlink stuff make it quick and use less space ?

VPraharsha
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  • Does this answer your question? [Why are packages installed rather than just linked to a specific environment?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55566419/why-are-packages-installed-rather-than-just-linked-to-a-specific-environment). That is Conda already will hardlink packages under-the-hood if you install the same package that is already in any other env (including **base**). You can also use `conda create --clone` to explicitly start an env using another. – merv Dec 21 '19 at 23:47
  • I am on Windows. Yeah it seems so, that most of the stuff is getting hard-linked. I tried finding the disk usage. My conda-env folder occupies 808 MB of space, i individually selected all together the folders in base-env/dir (packages and stuff) that are common between and it occupies 2.84 GB of space. – VPraharsha Dec 22 '19 at 09:02
  • But the number of files and folders is larger (64K files,8k folders) when i selected them individually compared to the conda-env which has 20k files and 3.3k folders – VPraharsha Dec 22 '19 at 09:10

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