Hi

I was wondering if it would be reasonable to have init.py check if ~/.matplotlib/ is a symbolic link to ~/.config/matplotlib/ before issuing the UserWarning about that location being deprecated. I unfortunately have to work with a software package that comes bundled with it's own copy of matplotlib which is version 1.1.0. That means it looks for the configuration in ~/.matplotlib/. I use 1.5.1 for all of my other work and keep my configuration files in ~/.config/matplotlib/. I thought I was being clever when I just made a symlink ~/.matplotlib/ that points to ~/.config/matplotlib/ but now I get UserWarnings whenever I use matplotlib outside of that other software package.

I'm running on linux (Mageia 6), Python version 2.7.12 and both Matplotlib and Python were installed with Anaconda.

If this is too much of an edge case and would just clutter the code I'd understand.

Thank you.