Speedup installation of the conda environment installation #6
Description
Install conda requirements faster
In #1 we introduced installing the dependencies using miniforge to build a conda environment. This then took about 5 minutes to resolve the required versions of all the involved software.
We can speedup this installation time using either:
- A full, hard-coded set of the required conda dependencies, like we did in a1656a3. This has the downside that we might be pinning a lot of dependencies that are not the most important for the software we want to run. If packages get out of date or get incompatible, this might require more maintenance.
- We can also utilize the caching capabilities of github actions: https://github.com/conda-incubator/setup-miniconda?tab=readme-ov-file#caching