Hi Lars,

Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net> skribis:

>> The JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR search path was added to ‘python-jupyter-core’ in
>> commit 1683e9d9677d54f695a54fc44ed309287989fc34.  Lars, what are you
>> thoughts?
> Please *do not* remove this environment variable. It is required, because
> packages like jupyterlab drop a config file into this directory.

But precisely: as Alexander wrote, when JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR points to the
store, jupyterlab cannot drop a config file there.  Or am I missing
something?

BTW, if JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR is meant to contain a directory name, as
opposed to a colon-separated search path, we should make this change: