there is almost NO support for the static flag...lets get this workin like it should =)
http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-util/strace/strace-4.4-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/bash/bash-2.05a-r3.ebuild.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.9 http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/bash/bash-2.05b-r3.ebuild.diff?r1=1.10&r2=1.1
de-staticized bash due to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7714
to be done on a per pkg basis and only when appropriate