Always install extensions to support mounting the home folder

[Scherlac]

Issue type: feature request

Description

We use dev container and we mount local folder from docker host into the user's home folder inside the container (eg. '/root/`).

The file /root/.vscode-server/data/Machine/.installExtensionsMarker is created every time we start our dev container and that prohibits us to install additional extensions. In case the file exist no extension is installed to prevent altering the container.

I did not see any issue regarding extension installation so I do not understand why the .installExtensionsMarker file is not deleted during dev container startup.

Actual behavior

We need to remove the marker file with a script using the initializeCommand or the postCreateCommand to allow new extension to be installed.

Expected

The extensions shall be installed on the mounted home folder in the following case:

• we extend the list of extensions in the .devcontainer.json (eg.: by updating the git repository),
• we add some extension manually.

VSCode:

Version: 1.57.0 (user setup) Commit: b4c1bd0a9b03c749ea011b06c6d2676c8091a70c Date: 2021-06-09T17:18:42.354Z Electron: 12.0.9 Chrome: 89.0.4389.128 Node.js: 14.16.0 V8: 8.9.255.25-electron.0 OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18363

Original topic from a different issue

@neuromechanist It looks like /root/.vscode-server-insiders/data/Machine/.installExtensionsMarker already existed (and we therefore skipped the extension install). Did you mount anything there or a parent folder?

Originally posted by @chrmarti in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/3975#issuecomment-723872103