I've been thinking about this yesterday for some other reasons, and I think we should work towards getting rid of static libraries altogether. From a software distribution/maintenance/updating/testing point of view its really terrible to have static libraries floating about without knowing for sure which package statically links what (Note that this is different from build-time dependencies in spkg/standard/deps).
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