Description of Problem: tkinter does not exist in limbo Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): n/a This isn't so much of a problem that it doesn't exist, the deprecation of tkinter is fine by me, but rather that nothing explicitly obsoletes it. This breaks dist upgrades unnecessarily. Having the base tk package obsolete tkinter would resolve this concern. Resolution: Add Obsoletes: tkinter to the Limbo tk spec file.
I really don't like the idea of obsoleteing packages when their functionality isn't replaced.
PySol uses tkinter and this is a great application. Please bring tinker back (ref #68845)
I have many applications that now no longer work since they depend upon Tkinter. As far as I know, this is still the most portable way to write a gui in python. pygtk does not work on non-Unix platforms, to my knowledge. I'm sad that Tk isn't installed by default, but I'm even sadder that Tkinter is gone. Please explain the reasoning for this. Also, I'm confused by bug 69838 which seems to imply existence of something called tkinter2. This existed in RedHat 7.3 (thus leading me to think that Tkinter would be around in whatever release switched Python to version 2.x). I would switch the severity of this to high since there is no workaround, but I can't do that since I am not the poster.
tkinter used to be part of python2 in Valhalla. Assigning to python owner.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70896 ***