Allow conda packages to be installed with mamba
charlesbluca opened this issue · comments
Given that mamba is already included in the base environments of dask and dask-notebook, it would be nice if users could choose to install extra conda packages with it instead of conda.
This could be done either with a variable controlling which solver to use for all conda installs (i.e USE_MAMBA) and/or with a separate variable specifying packages to install with mamba (i.e. EXTRA_MAMBA_PACKAGES).
I think my preference would be USE_MAMBA. We could implement that to use mamba under the hood, or alternatively to use the libmamba solver with conda.
It also makes it easy to flip it to default true at some point. I expect conda will also move to libmamba by default eventually.