diff --git a/media-libs/xvid/xvid-1.3.2-r1.ebuild b/media-libs/xvid/xvid-1.3.2-r1.ebuild
index a187969..1c03d19 100644
--- a/media-libs/xvid/xvid-1.3.2-r1.ebuild
+++ b/media-libs/xvid/xvid-1.3.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SRC_URI="http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
-IUSE="examples elibc_FreeBSD +threads pic"
+IUSE="examples elibc_FreeBSD static-libs +threads pic"
 
 NASM=">=dev-lang/nasm-2"
 YASM=">=dev-lang/yasm-1"
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ multilib_src_install() {
 	local mylib=$(basename $(ls "${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libxvidcore.so*))
 	dosym ${mylib} /usr/$(get_libdir)/libxvidcore.so
 	dosym ${mylib} /usr/$(get_libdir)/${mylib%.?}
+	use static-libs || rm -f "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/*.a
 }
 
 multilib_src_install_all() {