On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 22:15 +0200, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> So, why the heck, was the dependency to dev-libs/glib changed for an 
> existing ebuild without increasing its version (e.g. dbus-glib-0.100.2-r2)? 

Please see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/91615

> I have to use an older Eclipse 3.8.x version for my daily work and since it 
> is broken with latest gtk versions (a lot of crashes), I use still some old 
> ebuilds and have masked new ones.

Please file a bug report about this. If nobody tells us that a new gtk+
version broke something important, we will soon mark the new version as
stable and then remove the old version.