graphviz package confusing

[amueller]

I find it a bit confusing that the graphviz package in conda is not the graphviz package in pip. To use the python package graphviz in a conda environment, I have to conda install graphviz, which installs the C library, and pip install graphviz which installs the python library. I don't think the python graphviz library is part of conda.
Is there a way to make this less confusing?
Thanks!

[kalefranz]

Yes, we have a proposal to address this. https://gist.github.com/mcg1969/da5aec380d2ed083b79ddcf151ca16f1

It need not be named "Conda Hackery" at this point. We think it will actually work well.

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[amueller]

wow that's a pretty cool idea. It sounds like relatively long-term undertaking though...

[kalefranz]

Should happen first quarter or half of 2017 probably.

[amueller]

Feel free to close this, depending on how the renaming will work.

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[asmeurer]

I haven't read the proposal in depth, but I had always imagined this working by conda giving a helpful "which one do you want?" message (with configurable and/or smart defaults) for conda install package whenever both package and language-package exist (and also possibly automatically using language-package for conda install package when there is no ambiguity). This sort of "in the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess" can probably be applied to the namespace idea as well (it's mostly a UI thing).

[jakirkham]

At least for graphviz specifically @amueller, one can do conda install -c conda-forge python-graphviz and get both in one step. Though I do agree these conflicting names are a mess. @mcg1969's proposal is the most reasonable thing to solve this FWICT.

[kalefranz]

We're tracking ecosystem namespaces as a feature addition through #6939

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