Is it expected that an empty .nextflow/plr is created in the current dir when calling nextflow pull?

[SamStudio8]

Recently I've noticed that using nextflow pull will create an empty .nextflow/plr directory in the current working directory. I normally associate this directory with local plugins downloaded when running a workflow, not pulling one. This behaviour appears to have been added in 22.08.0-edge; it it expected?

[pditommaso]

It maybe be a side effect of this change. More specifically, the adding of the Plugins.init() here

https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/blob/master/modules/nextflow/src/main/groovy/nextflow/cli/CmdPull.groovy#L73-L73

I guess you would like to avoid the creation of that dir with the pull command.

[SamStudio8]

Thanks for confirming! Yes, it would be useful for nextflow pull to avoid unexpected changes to the CWD 😇