Limiting links to pages, but not actual pages?

[JetForMe]

I'd like to let the paginator page through all my posts, but I don't want it to generate a bunch of "posts - page N" links on the home page. I do want it to let me use next/previous links in each page. Is there any way to limit just the generation of direct page links? Thanks!

[JetForMe]

I don't know if it's possible, but if the paginator could imbue the pages variable with the count of both actual explicit pages, and separately the number that were generated by the paginator, that would make it possible to do what I want to do.