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|  | Overview
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|  | ========
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|  | The :term:`provider` concept is a way to "supplement" the main app
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|  | logic.  It is different from a :term:`handler` though:
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|  | Providers are *more* analagous to "plugins" than are handlers.  For
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|  | instance multiple :term:`app providers<app provider>` may be installed
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|  | by various packages and *each of these* will supplement the (one and
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|  | only) :term:`app handler`.  See also :doc:`arch`.
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|  | So far there is only one provider type defined; see :doc:`app`.
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