Arch Linux

Description:
python-matplotlib requires the tk package to function but it is not listed as a dependency

Additional info:
* package version(s)
community/python-matplotlib 0.99.1.1-1

* config and/or log files etc.



Steps to reproduce:
*Install python without installing tk
*run python
*try to import pylab

$ python
Python 2.6.3 (r263:75183, Oct 4 2009, 12:15:47)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pylab
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
from matplotlib.pylab import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 247, in <module>
from matplotlib.pyplot import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 78, in <module>
new_figure_manager, draw_if_interactive, show = pylab_setup()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py", line 25, in pylab_setup
globals(),locals(),[backend_name])
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 7, in <module>
import Tkinter as Tk, FileDialog
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 39, in <module>
import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: libtk8.5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory