Conda install of Quarto does not find the correct system wide tlmgr

I am getting an error when rendering pdf

running xelatex - 1
command xelatex not found, attempting install
finding package for xelatex
ERROR: Error executing '/home/fenke/miniconda3/envs/numdev/bin/tlmgr': No such file or directory (os error 2)

XeLatex is installed:

(numdev) me@host:~/repos/wodan> xelatex
This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999993 (TeX Live 2021/TeX Live for SUSE Linux) (preloaded format=xelatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
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! End of file on the terminal... why?

This, imo, should not happen, first of all, quarto shouldn't be poking around in texlive's installation and secondly, it's looking in the wrong place, TeXLive is a system managed package, Quarto is managed by conda. Something assumes texlive's tlmgr location is near where quarto lives - which is probably why it couldn't find XeLatex it in the first place.

Update:

Until recently I used Quarto with the VSCode extension - no problem. This started after installing Quarto in a Conda environment for the use of NBDev. Since then, the VSCode extension fails, I assume it's running the conda version and looking (in the wrong place).