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-rw-r--r--var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-matplotlib/package.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-matplotlib/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-matplotlib/package.py
index f6563c9ce4..4ba2ef6ffd 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-matplotlib/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-matplotlib/package.py
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ class PyMatplotlib(PythonPackage):
if sys.platform == 'darwin':
default_backend = 'macosx'
- variant('backend', default=default_backend, description='Default backend',
+ variant('backend', default=default_backend,
+ description='Default backend. All backends are installed and ' +
+ 'functional as long as dependencies are found at run-time',
values=all_backends, multi=False)
variant('movies', default=False,
description='Enable support for saving movies')