Author: parazyd Date: To: KatolaZ CC: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] GTK3 and systemd
On Thu, 04 May 2017, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 11:43:33AM +0200, Radagast wrote:
> > Ok, so vanilla GTK *does* depend on systemd. Well, best start looking for another toolkit then i guess...
> >
>
> ...or perhaps help maintaining and developing GTK2, which does not
> depend on systemd. Hard times ahead, but nobody has ever maganed to
> force the entire community to stay on a single path. Remember that
> GNOME itself was born as a tentative countermeasure to KDE, which was
> using the (then non-free) QT libraries, hence forcing users to abide
> to a non-free license from Trolltech...
Gtk2 hasn't received an update in years, so it's a relatively safe bet
if you choose to use it.