Although I appreciate that most bundled libraries are now "unbundled" from googleearth, I would like to see this for the bundled minimal nss-mdns only optionally (i.e., controlled by a USE-flag, similarly to the qt-bundled USE-flag): The reason is that sys-auth/nss-mdns from the tree needs net-dns/avahi (and by that also sys-libs/libcap and sys-apps/attr), the installation of all of which have strong security implications (depending on the security concept on the machine, it might be a possible attack vector to have these packets installed). Thus, in order to be able to use googleearth on such systems relatively safe, it would be nice if there were a USE-flag to have the bundled minimal nss-mdns which keeps the security implications to a minimum.
OK I added a mdns-bundled flag for this. Though I kind of doubt that a machine with strong security concept should be used to run stuff like google earth at all :)
Thanks a lot. You are right, the real cause of the problem is that googleearth is too insecure (e.g. by using such things like nss-mdns). However, I doubt that I can convince google to change this, and the application is simply needed, occassionally...
