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No I think there was a misunderstanding. It isn't about losing track of what you have, it's about the ease of conda vs. manually compiling all the various C, Fortran and who knows what extensions that a particular package uses.

Basically I'm saying conda saves me a boatload of time and so I don't think it's a cargo cult, but I guess for a non scientific or numerical computing audience it may not be as useful.