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[1.1.X] Refs django#12288 -- Clarified that application names must be unique. Thanks to Piotr Czachur for the report.
Backport of r13219 from trunk. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.1.X@13224 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -589,6 +589,14 @@ installation. Each string should be a full Python path to a Python package that
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contains a Django application, as created by :djadmin:`django-admin.py startapp
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.. admonition:: App names must be unique
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The application names (that is, the final dotted part of the
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path to the module containing ``models.py``) defined in
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:setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` *must* be unique. For example, you can't
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include both ``django.contrib.auth`` and ``myproject.auth`` in
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INSTALLED_APPS.
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.. setting:: INTERNAL_IPS
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