emsdk activate breaks things

emsdk.py clears EM_CONFIG

and therefore it is tried written to into emsdk folder
$ export EM_CONFIG=~/.emscripten
$ emsdk activate latest
Resolving SDK alias 'latest' to '3.1.59'
Resolving SDK version '3.1.59' to 'sdk-releases-e20ee09a8a740544c4bc6de5d4ba5f81f74b74d6-64bit'
Setting the following tools as active:
node-16.20.0-64bit
releases-e20ee09a8a740544c4bc6de5d4ba5f81f74b74d6-64bit

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/src/emsdk/emsdk.py", line 3114, in
sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
File "/opt/src/emsdk/emsdk.py", line 3048, in main
active_tools = set_active_tools(tools_to_activate, permanently_activate=arg_permanent, system=arg_system)
File "/opt/src/emsdk/emsdk.py", line 2412, in set_active_tools
generate_em_config(tools_to_activate, permanently_activate, system)
File "/opt/src/emsdk/emsdk.py", line 1540, in generate_em_config
with open(EM_CONFIG_PATH, "w") as text_file:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/src/emsdk/.emscripten'
markusmertama@37c7131e029c:~$

Whaat! I have to grant write access to whole emsdk folder due this design flaw