I found this /usr/lib64/libcdio_paranoia.a installed while I have USE=-static-libs globally then I looked at the ebuild and that useflag does really nothing
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=841dd747e05360ff8feb1be133ec32930b5c8d71 commit 841dd747e05360ff8feb1be133ec32930b5c8d71 Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-09-11 09:08:38 +0000 Commit: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-09-11 09:09:32 +0000 dev-libs/libcdio-paranoia: Make USE="-static-libs" do something Thanks-to: Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/694026 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.75, Repoman-2.3.17 Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> ...-paranoia-0.93_p1.ebuild => libcdio-paranoia-0.93_p1-r1.ebuild} | 7 ++++++- ...-paranoia-0.94_p2.ebuild => libcdio-paranoia-0.94_p2-r2.ebuild} | 5 +++++ ...cdio-paranoia-2.0.0.ebuild => libcdio-paranoia-2.0.0-r1.ebuild} | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)