[ENH] - Have conda store environments in user namespace not show up with username prefix

[Adam-D-Lewis]

Feature description

conda env list results in something like the following

I'd prefer the env names in the user namespace not have a username prefix.

# conda environments:
#
new                      /home/[email protected]/.conda/envs/new
admin-climatology        /home/conda/admin/envs/admin-climatology
allm                    /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
dash                    /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
embeddings              /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
excelpy                 /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
falcon                  /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
lc                      /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
mem1                    /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
mem2                    /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
mem3                    /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
memory                  /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
panel                   /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
pmill                   /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
r                       /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
scratch                 /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
scratch2                /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
sec                     /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
test                    /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
trees                   /home/conda/[email protected]/envs/[email protected]
analyst-bio-data              /home/conda/analyst/envs/analyst-bio-data
analyst-dashboard-papermill    /home/conda/analyst/envs/analyst-dashboard-papermill

I could foresee a few issues.

• If a user makes an env called analyst-myenv it would clash with a myenv environment name in the analyst namespace.

How to implement

I'm not sure how best to implement this. It doesn't seem straight forward. Maybe symlinks have a role here?

Value and/or benefit

Better UX for user environments

Anything else?

No response

[dharhas]

This is currently a limitation of conda, since conda doesn't have namespaces and not including the username means that you can have name clashes with other peoples environments since all the environments are on a shared drive. This used to happen and whoever created the environment (say data-science) last would have precedence

There is probably a way to build a workaround. Maybe using the custom env-dirs based on the username. This might also require changes in conda-store. This probably intersects with how conda-store should name envs and namespaces for the standalone use case as well. cc: @soapy1

[soapy1]

Oh ya, this seems like a conda-store issue to me. Feel free to drop an issue in conda-incubator/conda-store.