Picked random mail from this thread.
So, I've seen many people raising intrest in keeping IUSE="static" in
cryptsetup and lvm2 but I haven't really seen anyone working on it yet,
except _AxS_ committed one patch but that isn't enough.
Take eg. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472692#c4
The user raised very valid question in the bug... The current answer
seems to be "Nobody maintains this package for static linking, sorry."
So I'll be removing IUSE=static from said packages if they still fail
after week or so, like they do today and have for past months.
- Samuli