• Update the glib to 2.34.3 and gtk20 to 2.24.17 and gtk30 to 3.6.4 which are the latest stable releases.
• Update vala to the newest stable release 0.18.1, also update a few ports in the gtk/gnome stack.
• The c++ bindings ports for glib, atk, gconf, etc, have now USE_GNOME toggles.
• Remove pkg-config run depends from glib20 and freetype2. This doesn't eliminate pkg-config run dependency completely, a second phase is needed and is planned.
• Support for .:run. and .:build. for USE_GNOME components was added. Currently only libxml2 and libxslt support this mechanism.
• Updates of the telepathy stack and empathy.
• Trim makefile headers, convert ports to new options, trim off library versions for some ports.
• Fix other ports so they build with the new glib version.

Thanks to miwi and crees for helping out with some exp-runs.
Approved by: portmgr (miwi & bapt)
Obtained from: gnome team repo