[FEATURE REQUEST] A conda package for anvi'o with a minimal installation option

[ivagljiva]

A small project to improve anvi'o, based upon feedback/ideas @FlorianTrigodet and I heard from our colleagues at the QIB in Norwich.

The need

Some people might benefit from a conda package for anvi'o (for a more streamlined installation procedure), and in particular a minimal version that comes without most of the third-party dependencies.

The solution

Someone would have to create the conda package(s), and would probably have to do so for every stable version of anvi'o going forward. I know that some of us have attempted this in the past and it was a big headache, but if someone more familiar with conda package development could take a stab, lots of people would be grateful :)

Beneficiaries

Most users of anvi'o stable releases.

[Ge0rges]

I could also look at this after ISME if no-one else does.

[Ge0rges]

Seems like people have already contributed this to bioconda: anvio and anvio-minimal. Someone in the merenlab could be marked as maintainer and the future work would just need to keep dependency list, hash, link, and version number in these files updates. Might be worth adding a test to run anvi-self-test --no-interactive to the anvio package, and --mini to the minimal package.