Avoid creating symlinks in $HOME/bin?

[SciLiciumTheo]

Hello,

Thanks a lot for this very helpful TeX distribution!

I stumbled upon a particular edge case/problem.

I am using conda to manage separated environments for different projects.
I can install R and the tinytex R package in a conda environment, separating them from the rest of my setup.
I can then install TinyTex from R to whatever location I want, using tinytex::install_tinytex(force=TRUE, dir = install_dir). This is great to help keep things separated.

However, from

tinytex/R/install.R

Line 332 in f9205b4

os_index, win_app_dir('TinyTeX'), '~/.TinyTeX', '~/Library/TinyTeX'

, it seems that tinytex is only looking at the default install locations. This is confirmed (in a way) by https://yihui.org/tinytex/:
For Linux users, TinyTeX will be installed to $HOME/.TinyTeX and symlinks of executables (such as pdflatex) are created under $HOME/bin (or $HOME/.local/bin if it exists), which should be on the PATH environment variable

This prevents creating totally separated environments for different projects, and IMO somehow defeats the purpose of being able to install in a custom location as the symlinks are (expected to be) in a fixed location.

Would it be possible to somehow store the install location without creating symlinks in $HOME, (e.g. in the R install directory, which is separated for each conda install?) in order to allow for effectively separated installations?

Thank you in advance,
All the best,
Theo

[cderv]

tinytex::install_tinytex() has a add_path argument that default to TRUE. This will make a call to tlmgr path add which is I believe what creates the symlink.

So you should be able to set add_path = FALSE to avoid this.

Did you try ?