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+Bugfix: Don't enforce empty external apps slice
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+The command for ocis-phoenix enforced an empty external apps configuration. This was removed, as it was blocking a new set of default external apps in ocis-phoenix.
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+https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/pull/473