diff --git a/GPy/gpy_config.cfg b/GPy/gpy_config.cfg
index d52edd28..db90dbf6 100644
--- a/GPy/gpy_config.cfg
+++ b/GPy/gpy_config.cfg
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 [parallel]
 # Enable openmp support. This speeds up some computations, depending on the number
-# of cores available. Setting up a compiler with openmp support can be difficult on 
+# of cores available. Setting up a compiler with openmp support can be difficult on
 # some platforms, hence this option.
 openmp=False
+
+[anaconda]
+# if you have an anaconda python installation please specify it here.
+installed = False
+location = None
+MKL = False # set this to true if you have the MKL optimizations installed