refactor: replace canonicalization in search path retrieval with dedi… #1308

Job	Run time
Tests (windows-latest, x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, yes)	9m 44s
Builds (windows-latest, aarch64-pc-windows-msvc)	4m 39s
Tests (ubuntu-latest, x86_64-unknown-linux-musl, yes)	8m 56s
Builds (macos-14, aarch64-apple-darwin, yes)	3m 27s
Tests in Containers (ci-jupyter-container, ubuntu-latest, mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/univers...	4m 31s
Tests in Containers (ci-homebrew-container, ubuntu-latest, homebrew/brew, x86_64-unknown-linux-musl)	3m 42s
Env Tests (ci-poetry-global, ubuntu-latest, x86_64-unknown-linux-musl)	2m 41s
Env Tests (ci-poetry-project, ubuntu-latest, x86_64-unknown-linux-musl)	2m 42s
Env Tests (ci-poetry-project, windows-latest, x86_64-pc-windows-msvc)	5m 34s
Builds (windows-latest, x86_64-pc-windows-msvc)	4m 49s
Env Tests (ci-poetry-global, windows-latest, x86_64-pc-windows-msvc)	5m 31s
Env Tests (ci-poetry-custom, ubuntu-latest, x86_64-unknown-linux-musl)	2m 55s
Tests (macos-14, aarch64-apple-darwin, yes)	13m 53s
Env Tests (ci-poetry-custom, windows-latest, x86_64-pc-windows-msvc)	6m 24s
Tests (macos-latest, x86_64-apple-darwin, yes)	10m 35s
Builds (ubuntu-latest, x86_64-unknown-linux-musl, yes)	2m 22s
Builds (macos-latest, x86_64-apple-darwin, yes)	4m 27s
	1h 36m 52s

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