eselect-profile

Gentoo system profile management

TLDR

List available profile symlink targets

$ eselect profile list

Set the /etc/portage/make.profile symlink

$ eselect profile set [name|number]

Show the current system profile

$ eselect profile show

SYNOPSIS

eselect profile action [options]

eselect profile manages the /etc/portage/make.profile symlink on Gentoo systems. This symlink determines the system profile, which affects default USE flags, masked packages, and other Portage settings.
Part of the eselect framework for system configuration.

PARAMETERS

list

List available profiles

set target

Set profile symlink to target

show

Display current profile

CAVEATS

Gentoo Linux specific. Changing profiles affects package compilation defaults. Run emerge --update --deep --newuse @world after changing profiles.