A tool that helps make your conda environment files more lightweight by removing unnecessary transitive dependencies, leaving only what’s essential. It's a work-in-progress project, and we welcome feedback! Have ideas for new features or improvements? Open an issue in the repository to share your suggestions.

It is required to have conda installed. Once you are in a conda environment install conda conda install conda this is necessary for the package to work properly in the first place. Then simply pip install conda_dependency_cleaner. You now can see all available operations if you type cdc into your console.

Once installed you can clean your .yaml or .yml files by running the command cdc clean. An example usage is as follows:

cdc clean env.yml -nf env_cleaned.yml

For help and more info use cdc clean --help.

If you have a lot of pip dependencies which you want to convert to conda run cdc convert. Note that this can be very slow if there is a lot of dependencies due to the underlying solver conda uses. Sometimes the conversion fails, these failures will be reported after the script ran through.

cdc convert env.yml -nf env_converted.yml

For help and more info use cdc clonvert --help.