This package installs also static libs ".a" please provide do add relative USE. TIA /usr/lib/libxml2.a /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.8 /usr/lib/libxml2.la /usr/lib/libxml2.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 Please remove also .la if is not needed.
Bumped to -r2, ~all, and IUSE=static-libs + conditional la file removal. I didn't touch stable because we don't know what all is using libxml2 static libs implicitly.
*** Bug 325443 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***