#explicit-file

Explicit File vs Environment.yml: Which Conda Restore Guarantees Exact Artifacts?

Goal Restore a broken conda environment after disk loss while ensuring reproducibility. Constraints Need bit‑for‑bit exactness on the same platform, but also consider portability to a different OS/arch. Uncertainty The conda documentation lists two restore paths: conda list --explicit followed by conda create --file , and conda env export / conda env create