Description: disable download of sample data (used to run examples)
Author: Benjamin Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>

Index: matplotlib-1.1.0~rc1/matplotlibrc.template
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--- matplotlib-1.1.0~rc1.orig/matplotlibrc.template	2011-09-24 17:08:27.000000000 +0200
+++ matplotlib-1.1.0~rc1/matplotlibrc.template	2011-09-26 23:46:09.712993921 +0200
@@ -404,5 +404,5 @@
 # examples.download to False and examples.directory to the directory
 # where you have a checkout of https://github.com/matplotlib/sample_data
 
-#examples.download : True  # False to bypass downloading mechanism
-#examples.directory : ''   # directory to look in if download is false
+examples.download : False  # False to bypass downloading mechanism
+examples.directory : '/usr/share/matplotlib/sampledata'   # absolute directory to look in if download is false