Introduction

EZconda takes the approach of keeping two files for managing conda environments.

1. Specifications file contains the packages and channels (and only those packages/channels) that the user requests via the command line.

2. Lock file contains all the packages along with the exact version and build number and channels. It also contains other metadata such as the system information where it was generated, etc.

The two files keep environments and corresponding specifications in sync as well as support reproducible environment creation.