I'm reporting this bug because your package is currently using static linking on at least part of the files it installs: sys-block/open-iscsi (/usr/sbin/iscsistart) Now, while there are packages for which the static linking is mandatory, if it's just that it's desired, you should make it optional via USE flag default for +static with EAPI=1. Static linking _may_ be a security issue, thus shouldn't be forced on. If your package is actually a prebuilt or proprietary package, you should install in /opt instead.
This is what is used to generate the binary: cc -march=nocona -O2 -pipe -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I../include -DLinux -DNETLINK_ISCSI=8 -D_GNU_SOURCE -static netlink.o util.o io.o auth.o login.o log.o md5.o sha1.o iface.o idbm.o sysdeps.o sysfs.o iscsi_sysfs.o initiator.o scsi.o actor.o mgmt_ipc.o isns.o transport.o ../utils/fwparam_ibft/fw_entry.o ../utils/fwparam_ibft/fwparam_ibft.o ../utils/fwparam_ibft/fwparam_ppc.o ../utils/fwparam_ibft/prom_lex.o ../utils/fwparam_ibft/prom_parse.tab.o iscsistart.o statics.o -o iscsistart The file is for usage inside initramfs during boot, when you need to have root-on-iSCSI. It's got no usage outside of that.
there are a lot of people who dont use/want initramfs/initrd's. forcing static binaries on them for that isnt right. the original request is sane
root-on-iSCSI is not included in genkernel yet and will build iscsistart by itself, see #209817. IMHO, we can move away from compiling statically without any problems.
Fixed in 2.0.871-r1
