xref #83 (comment)
Starting cupy 14 wheels, have the option on including a ctk, by installing like cupy-cuda12x[ctk]" or "cupy-cuda13x[ctk]" . This makes cupy installed via pip to not depend on a system cuda toolkit., which happens in several systems.
When we install via conda this is not an issue, as conda includes it already.
cupy-xarray, can't work without cupy, at the moment in main cupy is not a dependency, I wonder if the situation described above, makes it easier to implement a reliable path to workable dependencies.
cc: @jacobtomlinson @weiji14