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Many people predicted that 2008 would see a surge in the availability use of install profiles in drupal. Going by the description of Package Builder project it looks like this is the first big step of the year in this direction.

Package builder is designed to automate the process of creating customized Drupal packages with a custom installation profile. Once enabled, with permission set, users can access the package builder form. In the form, users can specify a project's short name on drupal.org to add to the project to the package. With all projects added, users can specify which modules to enable. From there, users can add the project name, description, and custom PHP code to run after installation has taken place. After clicking "Build package" the package builder does the rest. Once completed, the package builder will have dumped a tarball into its file directory where a user can download the file.

I've been down in California since Tuesday, met with Henri, did some work from Aaron's and then went down to Yahoo in Sunnyvale for the Open Source CMS Summit (OSCMS 2007) and DrupalCON.