Wondering if there's a net positive in using whl2conda for this. The rough logic would be to:

1. Run the dependency analysis to get the conda and PyPI packages as we are doing now.
2. Instead of running pip install --no-deps ... directly, convert to .conda beforehand with whl2conda and then install that with conda --no-deps.
3. We would cache these converted wheels in the pkgs cache as usual.

Benefits:

• More integration in the conda environment (proper conda-meta/ files, clobbering detection, taken into account in the solves, etc).
• A mature project that has gone through the usual edge cases already so it should be more robust than this early attempt

Cons:

• One more dependency
• Delegated complexity to a 3rd party
• We could be introducing problems in the solves