Mart Raudsepp

Yes. That's right.
GNOME-2.16 is out of package.mask and now nearing your unstable ~arch systems closest mirror with the speed of, , electrons.
This is currently a 2.16.1 version of it.
For the rare (sub)profiles using Linux kernel version 2.4, GNOME-2.16 will stay masked, due to it requiring HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) quite heavily. The Linux version of it uses udev, which is new in 2.6 kernel. These profiles will however now get gtk+-2.10 with the necessary dependencies in their ~arch.

There is an upgrading guide over here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.16-upgrade.xml

It is likely that it will gain more items to it over time as things come up.

Enjoy! I know I am.
For the stable machines, well, the clock is ticking now.

Thanks to the GNOME desktop team for pulling this through!
I just got to do the finishing touches

Oh and I received a Gentoo GNOME team member badge some time ago for some reason