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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Internal config to avoid subprocessing uv","articleBody":"**Motivation**\nAs a pre-requisite to #241. Will also make tests a lot faster if we can avoid subprocess calls. Similar to how we use `frozen=True` by default, I think we could use `use_uv=False` by default for tests and just make exceptions for the cases where we need to have `frozen=False` - i.e. cases where we need to access the venv and actually install something. Hopefully this would speed up the test suite. \n\n**Summary of desired enhancement**\nAdd internal config state which allows us to avoid a uv subprocess call. Will need to create alternative functions for each call; for example, instead of `uv add` we will need to manually add to the dependencies lists (without lower bounds, presumably).\n\nThis wouldn't be exposed in the interface anywhere, it would just be internal for now.\n\nWe wouldn't re-configure the tests to use this new config yet, that can be done later.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/nathanjmcdougall","@type":"Person","name":"nathanjmcdougall"},"datePublished":"2025-02-11T09:07:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/296/usethis-python/issues/296"}