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[1.8.x] Added admonition about reusable apps and AUTH_USER_PROFILE. 

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@ -407,6 +407,14 @@ use as your User model.
have a ForeignKey to each other and seeing how ``makemigrations`` resolves that
circular dependency if you want to see how it's usually done)
.. admonition:: Reusable apps and ``AUTH_USER_MODEL``
Reusable apps shouldn't implement a custom user model. A project may use
many apps, and two reusable apps that implemented a custom user model
couldn't be used together. If you need to store per user information in your
app, use a :class:`~django.db.models.ForeignKey` or
:class:`~django.db.models.OneToOneField` to ``settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL``
as described below.
Referencing the User model
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