Trying to copy the best way

Dockerfile

@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ RUN curl -sLo ~/miniconda.sh https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-py39
 
 WORKDIR $HOME/app
 
+# Copy the current directory contents into the container at $HOME/app setting the owner to the user
+COPY --chown=user ./jupyterlab/ $HOME/app
+
 #######################################
 # Start root user section
 #######################################
@@ -60,10 +63,6 @@ WORKDIR $HOME/app
 USER root
 
 # User Debian packages
-COPY ./jupyterlab/ /root/
-#COPY ./jupyterlab/packages.txt packages.txt
-#COPY ./jupyterlab/on_startup.sh on_startup.sh
-
 ## Security warning : Potential user code executed as root (build time)
 RUN --mount=target=/root/packages.txt,source=/root/packages.txt \
     apt-get update && \
@@ -85,9 +84,6 @@ USER user
 RUN --mount=target=requirements.txt,source=requirements.txt \
     pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r requirements.txt
 
-# Copy the current directory contents into the container at $HOME/app setting the owner to the user
-COPY --chown=user ./jupyterlab/ $HOME/app
-
 RUN chmod +x start_server.sh
 
 COPY --chown=user ./jupyterlab/login.html /home/user/miniconda/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jupyter_server/templates/login.html