ESELECT
Section: eselect (1)
Updated: October 2011
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NAME
eselect - Gentoo's multi-purpose configuration and management tool
SYNOPSIS
eselect
[
global options]
module
[
action]
DESCRIPTION
eselect
is Gentoo's configuration and management tool. It features modules
that care for individual administrative tasks.
OPTIONS
- --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.
BUILT-INS
- 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.
MODULES
You can view a list of installed modules using
-
eselect modules list
For individual help on each module, please run
-
eselect
module
help
or refer to the manpage
module.eselect(5).
FULL DOCUMENTATION
Full user and developer documentation is included in Restructured Text (RST)
format. The 'html' Make target can be used to generate HTML versions.
AUTHORS
Danny van Dyk <
kugelfang@gentoo.org>
Ciaran McCreesh <
ciaranm@gentoo.org>
Aaron Walker <
ka0ttic@gentoo.org>
Ulrich Müller <
ulm@gentoo.org>