From limpbizkit on September 26, 2008 13:12:47

It should provide a single instance.

The rules for @ProvidedBy and annotations don't need to be the same as for
@ImplementedBy, where scoping conflicts could be problematic. For
@ProvidedBy the scopes don't conflict.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/issues/detail?id=251