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shouldn't this be part of framework instead of installer ?
in "configure packages", all config.xml-dist files are parsed
with the values the user entered and then new config.xml files
are written. when the framework tries to read from one of this
files, the fdate of serialized and original config.xml file should
be checked. if it is necessary then, the config xml file is
processed again for creating the serialized file.