Conda: installing local development package into single conda environment

Question

If I were using a virtualenv, I would activate my project\'s virtual environment then install the package I am developing in develop mode. Something like the following:

Answer 1

You can configure a list of default packages that will be installed into any conda environment automatically

conda config --add create_default_packages pip --add create_default_packages ipython

will make it so that conda create will always include pip and ipython in new environments (this command is the same as adding

create_default_packages:
  - ipython
  - pip

to your .condarc file).

To create an environment without these, use conda create --no-default-packages.