[GitHub] [arrow] h-vetinari commented on pull request #14072: ARROW-6459: [C++] Remove "python" from conda_env_cpp.txt

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h-vetinari commented on PR #14072:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/14072#issuecomment-1246836977

   > Should we have a separate `conda_env_cpp_dev.yml` to incude Python? Or if we assume linting is done through archery, then the `conda_env_archery.txt` already includes Python (implicitly), so then we are all good already.
   
   From the POV of conda, it's fine to depend on python for some functionality, but there is a big difference between:
   ```
   requirements:
     host:
       - python
   ```
   which assumes that there's a dependence on the python API/ABI and that the output must therefore be built per python version (the current status), versus
   ```
   requirements:
     host:
       - python *
   ```
   where python is still present and can be used, but the output explicitly[^1] does not depend on the python version.
   
   [^1]: well, as explicitly as a single character can be 😅 


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