The destination
variable isn't used when installing nbextensions, even though the install_nbextension
function supports it, and it's defined in the InstallNBExtensionApp class:
https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/blob/master/notebook/nbextensions.py#L703
It looks like it was removed in #879 here:
https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/pull/879/files#diff-720744abca8751e2ff12988ac308c604L308