Can conda automatically activate the env from an env environment.yml?

Question

This my environment.yml:

name: my-env-name
dependencies:
  - blah

To create this env I can cd to the dir with the yml in it and do this:

conda env create

Conda's smart enough to look in the yml and see the env name.

But to activate it why do I have to do this:

source activate my-env-name

Is there a switch to have conda just activate the env name from the environment.yml?

Answer 1

It's impossible. Workaround: direnv with anaconda layout