[kalefranz]

> What happens when there isn't a conda recipe for some package or inexplicably some dependency?

You go contribute it on conda-forge? The conda team is also actively working on improving some of these problems specifically for python users. When you create a new conda environment with python in it, we put pip in it for you too. In a way, we're implicitly encouraging you to use pip along with conda, and yet it's not a seamless experience. So https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/7053 is a current effort. Eventually, we're working toward conda being able to install wheels directly (at least pure-python wheels at a minimum), so that packages available on PyPI that conda-forge or Anaconda haven't built out yet can still be installed with conda.

> Do I go back to pip? sudo pip ;) ?

If you're putting `sudo` in front of `pip`, you're probably doing it wrong ;-)