Gnome Panel, without gconf

I have been using Tint, which works well, but I miss the menu that gnome-panel had. It also had a lot of little applets that I liked as well. However, i'm using just pekwm (not gnome with Pekwm as wm). which means I don't have all the gnome stuff installed atm (which is good to me). So i was wondering if it was possible to install gnome-panel without a lot of dependencies, especially gconf.

no. gnome-panel stores the configurations in gconf

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