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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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