Configuration

Environment Variables

VIV_RUN_MODE

ephemeral (default):

viv run will generate a temporary directory that is removed following execution

semi-ephemeral

viv run will set the VIV_CACHE directory to $TEMPDIR/viv-ephemeral-cache-$USER

persist

viv run will always use the standard VIV_CACHE which maximizes reusable vivenvs

VIV_CACHE

Path to use for vivenv cache by default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/viv or $HOME/.cache/viv

VIV_LOG_PATH

Path to use for log file by default $XDG_DATA_HOME/viv/viv.log or $HOME/.local/share/viv/viv.log

VIV_BIN_DIR

Path to use for shims by default $HOME/.local/bin

VIV_NO_SETUPTOOLS

Don’t add setuptools to generated vivenvs.

Many legacy packages expect setuptools to be available and don’t appropriately declare it as a dependency. To minimize frustration setuptools is added to every dependency list.

VIV_FORCE

Remove existence check and recreate vivenv

VIV_SPEC

Space separated list of dependencies in addition to those in script

VIV_VERBOSE

Show pip output in real time

VIV_DEBUG

Set log level to DEBUG

FORCE_COLOR

Force output to use ANSI escape codes

NO_COLOR

Remove all ANSI escape codes from output