EasyBuild creates folders when searching for easyconfigs or doing other non-installations

[Flamefire]

When running e.g. eb --search '^CUDA-12.1.1.eb' easybuild creates a directory structure in the default installation path, which is the users $HOME.

Why does EB tries to create folders in the user home when searching for easyconfigs?

If I never install anything to this path it will still be created which they should not.

E.g. I always do something to the effect of eb --install-path=/software Foo.eb for actual installations

[boegel]

This is not deliberate, I guess we just create that directory structure too early, before we do an early exit when --search is used.

Should be relatively easy to fix...