# Conda-forge only containers?

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/conda-forge-only-containers/27548>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** how-to, docker\
**Created:** [August 12, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/conda-forge-only-containers/27548 "2024-08-12T09:27:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Roy\_Dragseth](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/roy_dragseth/32/4212_2.png) [@Roy\_Dragseth](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/Roy_Dragseth)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/conda-forge-only-containers/27548/1 "2024-08-12T09:27:00Z")

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Is it possible make the containers provided by dockerstacks to be free of any licensing liabilites to Anaconda Inc? Their terms of use seems to be tightening and this might have economic consequences for many organisations: [https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda\_puts\_the\_squeeze\_on/](https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squeeze_on/)

I’m only asking for the technical possibilities here.

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**Author:** ![manics](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/manics/32/85_2.png) [@manics](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/manics)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/conda-forge-only-containers/27548/2 "2024-08-12T10:50:15Z")

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The Jupyter docker-stacks use Micromamba with the conda-forge channel:

> <https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/blob/6f74c72a92f229ced23b73c138cc9580ca89ea22/images%2Fdocker-stacks-foundation%2FDockerfile#L92-L102>

> <https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/blob/6f74c72a92f229ced23b73c138cc9580ca89ea22/images%2Fdocker-stacks-foundation%2Finitial-condarc>

Of course that wont stop someone installing packages from another channel at runtime.

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**Author:** ![bollwyvl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/bollwyvl/32/904_2.png) [@bollwyvl](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/bollwyvl)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/conda-forge-only-containers/27548/3 "2024-08-12T14:20:00Z")

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Yep. One could add a bogus redirect of `anaconda.com` (not `.org`) in `/etc/hosts`, but the `anaconda.org/(anaconda|m2)` channels would be harder to remove at the networking layer.

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**Author:** ![Roy\_Dragseth](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/roy_dragseth/32/4212_2.png) [@Roy\_Dragseth](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/Roy_Dragseth)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/conda-forge-only-containers/27548/4 "2024-08-13T06:26:38Z")

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Thank you for the clarification.

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**Author:** ![Roy\_Dragseth](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/roy_dragseth/32/4212_2.png) [@Roy\_Dragseth](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/Roy_Dragseth)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 6:28am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/conda-forge-only-containers/27548/5 "2024-08-13T06:28:09Z")

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Thanks for the tip, but we will rather monitor activity than hacking the network config 🙂