Xorg related problem with la files

[Rafał Mużyło]

I'm using Gentoo. In the LDFLAGS, that my system is built with,
I have -Wl,--as-needed.
A few days ago, there was a release of libxcb and libX11,
that has done away with libxcb-xlib.
The problem is that this lib has injected its la file
to a lot of libX11 dependent la files. My question is:
was there any way to prevent this problem from happening
in the first place ? Most of the libs affected didn't link
with that lib anyway.
Here you'll find a discussion of a similar (but much earlier)
problem: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158476 .

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