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ESELECT

Section: eselect (1)
Updated: February 2023
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eselect - Gentoo's multi-purpose configuration and management tool

eselect [global options] module [action]

eselect is Gentoo's configuration and management tool. It features modules that care for individual administrative tasks.

--brief: Set brief output mode, for use as input to other programs. (This is an experimental feature.)
--color=mode, --colour=mode: Enable or disable colour output. mode can be yes, no, or auto. The default is auto, for which colour output is enabled only if standard output is connected to a terminal.
--eprefix=path: The path that eselect should use as the offse-prefix path for its operations. Only relevant for a cros-prefix build. If neither this option nor the EPREFIX environment variable are specified, the hardcoded prefix of the build host is used as a default.
--root=path: The path that eselect should use as the target root filesystem for its operations. If not specified, the value of the ROOT environment variable is used as a default.

help: Displays a help screen listing all built-ins and the installed modules.
usage: Displays a minimal help screen.
version: Prints eselect's version tag.

You can view a list of installed modules using

For individual help on each module, please run

or refer to the manpage module.eselect(5).

Full user and developer documentation is included in Restructured Text (RST) format. The 'html' Make target can be used to generate HTML versions.

Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>
Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>