I see Fedora is removing .la files without problems, maybe we could do the same: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/teckit.git/tree/teckit.spec Thanks
commit bb8145669efe49f2c5ed33d20371b8373c35341d Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Thu Dec 29 16:30:11 2016 +0100 app-text/teckit: remove .la files, bug #593778 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1