Conda deletes powershell and console shortcut on update

[Nathan-Furnal]

Hi,

When I update conda to the latest version (4.7.5) in my base env.

I get :

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  console_shortcut-0.1.1-3
  powershell_shortcut-0.0.1-2

Which removes the shortcuts obviously,

is this intented behavior?

Thanks

P.S : I'm using miniconda on Win10, lenovo laptop.

[CyberQin]

Bugs in conda4.7.5
Reinstall anaconda2019.03 and don't update any package for now.
Recently issue shows that conda4.7.5 breaks some mechanism.

or conda config --set auto_update_conda False
then install/update package

[msarahan]

Those are being removed because the miniconda installer doesn't install them in a way that preserves them as part of the explicit install history. You can get them back by doing:

conda install console_shortcut powershell_shortcut

After that, they should not disappear for you. There's a lot more information about this issue in #8842

[Ingvar-Y]

conda update --all removed console_shortcut (and conda-env) from my environment after updating conda from 4.6.14 to 4.7.8 despite #8911

This maybe has something to do with having conda-forge above defaults in condarc file.

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