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| so each instance gets its own directory. After installing packages with ``install()`` on each instance, | ||
| call ``generate()`` on all of them so every venv is added to the PATH. |
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I would mention that this would only be necessary if we need to install things that cannot be resolved in a single virtualenv, e.g. due to dependency/version conflicts
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I'd like to understand first the multiple instances with same name behavior and what we are going to do with that, maybe it is necessary to document against that? Or forbid it by code?
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