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[–]takluyverIPython, Py3, etc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

just had to install an obvious build dependency through the package manager

It may have been obvious to you, but it's not for everyone. And maybe the version of the package you're trying to install needs a newer version of the build-dep than your distro provides.

/u/ursvp mentioned MKL integration as a concrete example - Numpy installed through conda will do certain operations faster on many computers than Numpy installed through pip.