It seems in Fedora are able to remove .la files without issues, maybe we could do the same Thanks
i've bumped to add USE=static-libs support and dropped the .la file at the same time. doesn't look like its libs link against anything other than libc. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=87bb90160d833abed515cc36c2753670d4616464