Multiple files in Anaconda folder

Question

Recently i have installed Anaconda 3 to use Jupyter Notebook for Machine Learning. Here in Anaconda I found there are multiple packages(some called it as module) at different locations in which some are duplicate.

Location 1: C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\pkgs

Location 2: C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Lib

Location 3: C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\myenv\Lib\site-packages (My custom Environment for Machine learning Programs which includes scikit-learn, pandas, etc...)

So is there a way I can combine this all and add to myenv(custom environment)? and delete C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\pkgs this folder?

Answer 1

You just don't understand what conda is and how it works. Here is a brief introduction .

• pkgs is the default cache directory for package installed by you.
• Lib stores libraries for the base/root environment, this is the very environment makes conda work
• envs\myenv\Lib\site-packages , user-installed packages for specific environment myenv