Bundled `conda-standalone` will inherit settings from existing .condarc files

[jaimergp]

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What happened?

Our bundled conda-standalone.exe will read and load existing .condarc configurations, which might break the solver behavior and possibly others. For example, we built the installer with specs from different channels with channel_priority: flexible (default) but the user running the installer has a .condarc file with channel_priority: strict -- potential problems.

The solution is to add a flag or environment variable to upstream conda to disable the search path for .condarc files.

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Additional Context

This could go to conda/conda-standalone too, but I'll leave it here as a reminder to enable once available, since we are the primary users of that tool.

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[jaimergp]

Still an issue.