For those who are still bothered by this and don't feel like recompiling gaim on their own, I created pidgin packages for etch without the gconf dependency, available on http://tools.desire.ch/pidgin-debian (based on the official pidgin packages from sid).
They are, of course, not officially supported etc. and I still hope for a "clean" solution from the debian gaim/pidgin maintainers. For the time being, though, they keep gconf off your system. Regards -- Stefan Ott http://www.ottwerk.net/ "Evil will triumph because good is dumb" -- Dark Helmet
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