Little late to this discussion but,

There are already some gnomish dependencies in the form of automounting via gvfs (uses libsystemd0 already) for thunar, and the same with midori depending on gnomes key storage backend (since it's the only implementation of such a thing afaik).

Cheers,

chillfan

On Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:11 PM, Go Linux <golinux@???> wrote:
> I sometimes hang out on the xfce forum and ran across this today. It
> seems that xfce 4.14 is moving from gtk2 to gtk3 and predictably in very
> gnomish fashion, features/functionality are being removed. So Devuan
> might want to contemplate less gnome-driven options for future releases.
> Since gtk2 is no longer being developed, I wonder what that means for
> Mate's future . . .
>
> https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=10407
>
> golinux
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