How to tell conda init location of .zshrc?

I'm trying to install miniconda automatically in my setup script. The issue is, I have my .zshrc in ~/.config/zsh/ and when I run

eval "${XDG_DATA_HOME}/miniconda/bin/conda init zsh"

it creates new .zshrc in my home.

How could I tell the conda init where my .zshrc is?

Solution

Known Bug with Imminent Fix

This is a known issue and a fix has been merged into master branch, but is not yet released. The fix assumes that the ZDOTDIR environment variable defines where to find the .zshrc file. If one didn't have it defined, then the fix would be

ZDOTDIR=~/.config/zsh conda init zsh

However, that will have to wait until the next release.

Temporary Workaround

In the meantime you can just manually copy the code it added to ~/.zshrc and append it to yours. Or if you are super concerned about Conda running it, you could run this script in the Conda base Python

File: init_zsh.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from conda.core.initialize import init_sh_user
from conda.base.context import context
from conda.common.path import expand

init_sh_user(expand("$ZDOTDIR/.zshrc"), context.conda_prefix, "zsh")

which for you would be something like

eval "${XDG_DATA_HOME}/miniconda/bin/python init_zsh.py"

assuming ZDOTDIR is defined.