libarchive.so => /lib64/libarchive.so (interpreter => none) libacl.so.1 => /lib64/libacl.so.1 libattr.so.1 => /lib64/libattr.so.1 libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1 liblzma.so.5 => /usr/lib64/liblzma.so.5 libbz2.so.1 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1 libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 Please either request moving all dependant libraries into /lib, or move libarchive into /usr/lib.
USE="static" was only linking libarchive in as static, leaving all the compress libraries linked in as shared. And as you pointed out, most of these compress libraries are in /usr. Therefore I've punted the useless USE="static" and moved everything back to /usr where they belong. Fixed by ebuild for 3.0.2