Using a system-provided package in conda

[luksh...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I'd like to (re-)use the python package provided by the system's package
manager (in this case, python3.5 from ubuntu xenial) instead of
downloading and installing it.

Reading the documentation, it seems using the option '-c system' would
do it, but no, it doesn't. For example, 'conda search -c system
--override-channels python' returns nothing.

What's the appropriate way to do it?

Regards,
-- st