Remove Packages

EZconda will keep track of the packages you remove from your environment and update the environment specifications file and lock file accordingly.

If a package that you are trying to remove is a dependency for another installed package, EZconda will inform you about this before continuing. (More on this later)

Remove packages

Let's say you have installed numpy and python=3.9 in your environment new-proj and the specifications file looks like this -

new-proj.yml

name: new-proj
channels:
    - defaults
dependencies:
    - python=3.9
    - numpy

To remove numpy from the environment, use the remove command -

$ ezconda remove -n new-proj numpy

// Removes numpy from new-proj
🚀 Removed packages from new-proj

// Updates environment specifications
💾 Updated specifications to 'new-proj.yml'

// Updates lock file with new packages
🔒 Lock file updated
⭐ Done!

The updated specifications file and lock file does not contain numpy -

new-proj.yml

name: new-proj
channels:
    - defaults
dependencies:
    - python=3.9

Dependencies

EZconda performs informed package removal.

Let's say you have installed both numpy and pandas in your environment and the specification file looks like the following -

new-proj.yml

name: new-proj
channels:
    - defaults
dependencies:
    - python=3.9
    - numpy
    - pandas

Now, if you try to remove numpy from the environment, EZconda will inform you that pandas requires numpy to be installed and if you remove it, pandas will also be removed from the environment.

Check it out -

$ ezconda remove -n new-proj numpy

// Identifies dependent packages
There are packages that depend on 'numpy'

Removing 'numpy' will also remove them!

numpy is required by
- pandas

// Asks before continuing
Do you want to continue? [y/N]: