Gentoo BINHOST

[Vieri]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the Gentoo BINHOST for amd64 by following this section of the manual:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:A ... ckage_host

I understand that the stage3 already includes a sample /etc/portage/binrepos.conf/gentoobinhost.conf with priority=1.
The manual suggests to change that value to something really high like 9999.
On a newly-installed system with no custom binhosts or repos, isn't 1 enough?

BTW, the mirrorselect tool does NOT automatically update the value of "sync-uri" or "priority" in /etc/portage/binrepos.conf/gentoobinhost.conf, right?
Can't "sync-uri" somehow use the GENTOO_MIRRORS env variable?

So, in make.conf I only had to set this up to enable BINHOST:

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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="${EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS} --getbinpkg"
FEATURES="${FEATURES} getbinpkg"
FEATURES="${FEATURES} binpkg-request-signature"

BTW, is removing binpkg-request-signature from FEATURES enough to disable signature checking?
Does that mean that "not including binpkg-request-signature in FEATURES" actually disables "verify-signature = true" in /etc/portage/binrepos.conf/gentoobinhost.conf? Or does it have to be explicit as in FEATURES="${FEATURES} -binpkg-request-signature"? Or do I need to use FEATURES="${FEATURES} binpkg-ignore-signature"? Or do I still have to manually edit /etc/portage/binrepos.conf/gentoobinhost.conf and set "verify-signature = false" (not that I want to disable signature checking -- just wondering how it all works)?

So then I ran:

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# getuto
 * Initializing /etc/portage/gnupg ...
[etc]

I can then install from BINHOST.

I understand that the packages in the Gentoo BINHOST have been built with the settings found in
https://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/amd6 ... 4/Packages
Now, if I wanted to adjust my make.conf so that I can pull in as many compatible binary packages as possible, what would I be looking for?
It comes down to basically adjusting the USE flags?

Thanks