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-Conda Buildpack
-===============
+Miniconda Buildpack
+===================
 
-This is a [Heroku Buildpack](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks) for [Conda](http://docs.continuum.io/conda/), the Python distribution for scientific computing by Continuum Analytics.
+This is a [Heroku Buildpack](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks) for [Conda](http://conda.pydata.org/), the Python distribution for scientific computing by Continuum Analytics.
 
-**Warning**: this buildpack is still a work in progress.
+This buildpack enables the installation of binary packages through the
+open source [conda](http://conda.pydata.org/) application.  Conda is
+recognized as being core to Continuum's Anaconda Scientific Python distro
+but it's also at the heart of the lighter weight
+[Miniconda](http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html) distro which we use
+here to install _only_ the binary packages we need for our apps deployed
+on Heroku.
 
+To control what binary packages are installed by conda, supply a
+`conda-requirements.txt` file (which can be created by capturing the output
+of `conda list -e` for your working conda environment).
+Like when using the standard buildpack for python from Heroku, you can also
+still supply a `requirements.txt` file for [pip](https://github.com/pypa/pip)
+to process.  In this way, you can install binary packages via conda for
+everything you can and still use pip for anything you can't.
 Usage
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