Poetry ignores virtualenvs.in-project when initialized within a conda environment

[dmcauslan]

• I am on the latest Poetry version.

• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS version and name: macOs 10.15.7

• Poetry version: 1.1.6

• Link of a Gist with the contents of your pyproject.toml file:

[tool.poetry]
name = "poetry-envs"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["Don McAuslan"]

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "^3.8"
requests = "^2.25.1"

[tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]

[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

Issue

When creating a new project with poetry init inside an activated conda environment, Poetry will install packages into that environment rather than creating a local virtual env in .venv.

$ poetry --version
Poetry version 1.1.6

$ poetry config --list
cache-dir = "/Users/[my user id]/Library/Caches/pypoetry"
experimental.new-installer = true
installer.parallel = true
virtualenvs.create = true
virtualenvs.in-project = true
virtualenvs.path = "{cache-dir}/virtualenvs"  # /Users/[my user id]/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenv

$ conda create -n py38_poetry python=3.8
... create the environment

$ conda activate py38_poetry

(py38_poetry) $ poetry init
... accept all defaults

(py38_poetry) $ poetry add requests@latest
Using version ^2.25.1 for requests
...

(py38_poetry) $ poetry env info

Virtualenv
Python:         3.8.8
Implementation: CPython
Path:           /usr/local/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/py38_poetry
Valid:          True

System
Platform: darwin
OS:       posix
Python:   /usr/local/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/py38_poetry

(py38_poetry)  $ poetry run which python
/usr/local/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/py38_poetry/bin/python

Since virtualenvs.create and virtualenvs.in-project are both true, I would expect the virtualenv path to be .venv within the current folder rather than /usr/local/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/py38_poetry

[mforbes]

I believe this is related to the discussion in issue #1724 and is consistent with the current design of poetry, hence, not a bug. Still, I think it would be useful to be able to turn this feature off somehow.

[finswimmer]

Hello @dmcauslan,

as @mforbes explained this is the expected behavior. I would suggest you add you reasons why this would be useful to #4055

fin swimmer

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