Optimize environment provision times with pixi

[jaimergp]

Ports conda-forge/conda-smithy#2099

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[jaimergp]

With pixi, importing the dependencies into a new toml and solving from scratch.

macOS needs 24s to deploy base:

2024-10-02T22:14:28.5022520Z Downloading pixi 0.30.0
2024-10-02T22:14:29.6253360Z + echo 'Creating environment'
2024-10-02T22:14:52.5630520Z ##[group]Configuring conda

On Windows, 26s:

2024-10-02T22:14:34.0143231Z Downloading pixi 0.30.0
2024-10-02T22:14:36.9925817Z Creating environment
2024-10-02T22:15:50.0624206Z ##[group]Configuring conda

[ruben-arts]

What are the original numbers before this PR?

[jaimergp]

See conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io#2323 (comment), @ruben-arts!

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[beckermr]

Having the deps here and in the .toml is not ideal. Any way around this?