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I am maintaining it for some months now and it has reached a state
where we should think about treecleaning it.

reasons:
a) bundles tons of libs since ages (security and stability issues,
many of them can not be unbundled)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212373
b) segfaults randomly; the new version as well
https://code.google.com/p/earth-api-samples/issues/detail?id=957
https://code.google.com/p/earth-issues/issues/detail?id=1608
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470684
c) random runtime bugs
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474462
d) upstream ignores bug reports or is unable to fix them
e) upstream is unable to upload tarballs with a version in the
filename which leads to checksum failure and trouble for users if they
want to install an older version, because the new one is broken again

Maintaining a package in gentoo implies a few things for me:
We are able to support it properly which either means that we can
communicate with upstream or at least (if that fails) fix bugs on our
own. Currently, both does not apply to googleearth which means we
cannot resolve a lot of bugs in any way.
Also... software in the tree should meet a minimum of quality and we
should not support vulnerable and broken software officially.

solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe
science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for... experimental
stuff.

alternatives to googleearth:
- - lots of web services ("google maps", "openstreet maps", ...)
- - "nasa world wind" (not in the tree afais but opensource and java)
- - kde-base/marble
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