Can we use install libraries inside a particular directory by turning off Virtual environment?

[somyarj1637]

We have a requirement of installing the libraries and binaries inside a custom file path, but we don't want the creation of virtual environment.
Currently, we disabled the virtual environment using the command poetry config virtualenvs.create false --local but it was then locating the packages to .local folder but we want the libraries and binaries to get loaded into a custom folder where we desire.

Can anyone help us to resolve this issue?

[finswimmer]

but we don't want the creation of virtual environment.

Why? This is almost always a bad idea.

[somyarj1637]

Previously we were using PIP for our package management but as Poetry have many more features we are opting Poetry for packaging our dependencies. As in PIP, we were installing the packages into that some custom folder location. But while we opting Poetry, we were not able to do that.
We have already tried various poetry config commands to adjust the config, but it ends up either creating the virtualenv or setting it to .local file. Is there any way to achieve our goal?

[Secrus]

If you need such low-level control, pip is your best choice. poetry (and other project-based tools) abstract those concerns away and don't expose them to users.

[finswimmer]

"We always did it before" is not really a useful answer ;) The question is, why you always did it before?

There is no way to tell poetry to install certain dependencies to a choosen location. What you can do, is to create a venv using python's venv module at the desired place (python -m venv <path/to/venv>), activate it manually (source <path/to/venv>/bin/activate) and than run poetry install. Poetry will than use the activated venv to install the dependencies.