[QST]: Why is the cuopt release so bad architecturally?

[deloitte-jcatana]

What is your question?

Why do you use conda environments within a container? You already have the isolation and abstraction of the container, why the need to initialize a separate conda env?
This env is installed to a specific user and UID. If you are not running as the user or UID cuopt doesn't work. It also makes it difficult to layer additional packages on top of the container.

Why not just make it global env for the entire image? Place files in global directories like /usr/local/