The imagemagick's static-libs USE flag does not prevent multiple static libraries from being installed when disabled. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="-static-libs" emerge -1 imagemagick 2. equery f imagemagick | egrep '\.la' Actual Results: 112 static libraries in total. 109 of them are in the modules folder; the other three are libMagick++.la, libMagickCore.la, libMagickWand.la. Expected Results: No static libraries, everything built into the dynamic libraries.
Created attachment 298723 [details] emerge --info output
You are confusing libtool archive(s) (.la) with static archive(s) (.a) ImageMagick always needs .la for the libltdl and module loading