diff --git a/provider/all/none.go b/provider/all/none.go
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+// Copyright 2023 Canonical Ltd.
+// Licensed under the AGPLv3, see LICENCE file for details.
+
+package all
+
+// This file is here so that you can compile Juju with no providers
+// (i.e. BUILD_TAGS='minimal'). Otherwise, Go will complain that the build
+// constraints exclude all Go files in this package.