Greetings

Installing gnome in a new machine I found that packages in the gnome group, the install scripts call for some missing bins. (I did not create a bug track because there were several packages) These bin are: /usr/bin/gconftool-2 /usr/sbin/gconfpkg gtk-update-cache

Also, shouldn't xorg be dependency of gnome?

raca

Xorg isn't a dependency of gnome, as you can run GNOME on a remote X server. As for this gconftool-2 thing, please file a bug and attach your pacman.log with the relevant parts.