GTK+ is only used for log viewer and X11 renderer. Compiling log viewer is already optional, and so could be with X11 render, which will allow to make GTK+ dependency optional.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/plymouth/commit/?id=8593c039aea6b393577cb75045f53f8f3aa1015a Should be set.
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