title: Why creating Anaconda environments is taking forever
body: <p>I'm interested in using a nice script from GitLab:
  <a href="https://gitlab.com/RBP_Bioinformatics/mustard" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitlab.com/RBP_Bioinformatics/mustard</a></p>
  <p>Now the author already describes nicely the requirements and dependencies of the script, however, I really get tough time trying to creat an environment via conda</p>
  <pre><code>$ conda create -n py27 python=2.7 anaconda
  Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): ...working... done
  Solving environment: ...working... failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
  Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): ...working... done
  Solving environment: ...working...
  </code></pre>
  <p>now it has been solving the environment forever now, and I seem not to be the only one suffering,</p>
  <p>honstly, I think that PIP and VENV are still the best, and I can't understand the use of a script when I must understand all the dependencies and packages to run it one single time, it would have been easier to write it from the beginning!</p>
  <p>also I think when a script has so many dependencies, efforts should be done to compile that , that's why compiling is for,</p>
  <p>anyway, I will need help in creating an environment using conda without waiting for 6h or more ..</p>
  <p>I must be doing something not smart, and I don't want to work hard!</p>
  <p>thanks if you decide to help!</p>