diff --git a/app-admin/augeas/augeas-1.14.1-r1.ebuild b/app-admin/augeas/augeas-1.14.1-r1.ebuild
index 3e4235ed3d36c..bf9d3660499d9 100644
--- a/app-admin/augeas/augeas-1.14.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-admin/augeas/augeas-1.14.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -12,12 +12,14 @@ SRC_URI="https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/releases/download/release-${PV}
 LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc x86"
-IUSE="test"
+IUSE="selinux test"
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	dev-libs/libxml2:=
-	sys-libs/readline:="
+	sys-libs/readline:=
+	selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )
+"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
 	>=app-text/NaturalDocs-1.40
@@ -31,8 +33,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 }
 
 src_configure() {
-	# selinux needs to be implemented
-	econf --without-selinux
+	econf $(use_with selinux)
 }
 
 src_compile() {