diff -upNr ./includes/install.inc ./includes/install.inc
--- ./includes/install.inc	2009-07-23 14:07:05.300210950 -0500
+++ ./includes/install.inc	2009-07-23 01:27:17.983029301 -0500
@@ -421,9 +421,8 @@ function drupal_get_install_files($modul
   return $installs;
 }
 
-
 /**
- * Verify an install profile for installation.
+ * Verify that dependencies for a profile are installed
  *
  * @param $install_state
  *   An array of information about the current installation state.
@@ -431,17 +430,6 @@ function drupal_get_install_files($modul
  *   The list of modules to install.
  */
 function drupal_verify_profile($install_state) {
-  $profile = $install_state['parameters']['profile'];
-  $locale = $install_state['parameters']['locale'];
-
-  include_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/file.inc';
-  include_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/common.inc';
-
-  $profile_file = DRUPAL_ROOT . "/profiles/$profile/$profile.profile";
-
-  if (!isset($profile) || !file_exists($profile_file)) {
-    throw new Exception(install_no_profile_error());
-  }
   $info = $install_state['profile_info'];
 
   // Get a list of modules that exist in Drupal's assorted subdirectories.
@@ -451,23 +439,16 @@ function drupal_verify_profile($install_
   }
 
   // Verify that all of the profile's required modules are present.
+  if (empty($info['dependencies'])) {
+    return array();
+  }
   $missing_modules = array_diff($info['dependencies'], $present_modules);
+  return $missing_modules;
+}
 
-  $requirements = array();
-
-  if (count($missing_modules)) {
-    $modules = array();
-    foreach ($missing_modules as $module) {
-      $modules[] = '<span class="admin-missing">' . drupal_ucfirst($module) . '</span>';
-    }
-    $requirements['required_modules'] = array(
-      'title'       => st('Required modules'),
-      'value'       => st('Required modules not found.'),
-      'severity'    => REQUIREMENT_ERROR,
-      'description' => st('The following modules are required but were not found. Please move them into the appropriate modules subdirectory, such as <em>sites/all/modules</em>. Missing modules: !modules', array('!modules' => implode(', ', $modules))),
-    );
-  }
-  return $requirements;
+function drupal_dependencies_met($install_state) {
+  $dependencies = drupal_verify_profile($install_state);
+  return empty($dependencies) ? TRUE : FALSE;
 }
 
 /**
diff -upNr ./install.php ./install.php
--- ./install.php	2009-07-23 14:07:05.188454226 -0500
+++ ./install.php	2009-07-23 13:54:45.548945362 -0500
@@ -534,6 +534,11 @@ function install_tasks($install_state) {
     'install_verify_requirements' => array(
       'display_name' => st('Verify requirements'),
     ),
+    'install_dependencies' => array(
+      'display_name' => st('Install Dependencies'),
+      'type' => 'form',
+      'run' => drupal_dependencies_met($install_state) ? INSTALL_TASK_SKIP : INSTALL_TASK_RUN_IF_NOT_COMPLETED,
+    ),
     'install_settings_form' => array(
       'display_name' => st('Set up database'),
       'type' => 'form',
@@ -694,9 +699,6 @@ function install_verify_requirements(&$i
     // Check the installation requirements for Drupal and this profile.
     $requirements = install_check_requirements($install_state);
 
-    // Verify existence of all required modules.
-    $requirements += drupal_verify_profile($install_state);
-
     // Check the severity of the requirements reported.
     $severity = drupal_requirements_severity($requirements);
 
@@ -1681,3 +1683,47 @@ if (realpath($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']
   // Start the installer.
   install_drupal();
 }
+
+/**
+ * Instead of failing outright, allow the user to install dependencies.
+ *
+ * If any dependencies are unmet, list them.  Then show the user the login form
+ * that is used by the update subsystem.  After collecting it, install the
+ * missing dependencies.
+ *
+ * @param $install_state
+ *   An array of information about the current installation state. This is
+ *   passed along to each task, so it can be modified if necessary.
+ * @return
+ *   A form to be displayed if dependencies are unmet.
+ */
+function install_dependencies(&$form_state, &$install_state) {
+  // Load the files needed to use the update functionality.
+  require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/modules/update/update.module';
+  require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/modules/update/update.admin.inc';
+  require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/filetransfer/filetransfer.inc';
+  require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/filetransfer/ssh.inc';
+  require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/filetransfer/ftp.inc';
+  drupal_set_title(st('Install Dependencies'));
+
+  // Display the backend selection form.
+  $form = _update_update_form_backend_chooser(array());
+  $form['#validate'] = array('update_update_form_validate', 'install_mark_dependencies');
+  $form['#submit'] = array('update_update_form_submit');
+
+  $form['dependencies'] = array(
+    '#type' => 'value',
+    '#value' => drupal_verify_profile($install_state),
+  );
+
+  return $form;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Inject the list of dependencies into the update form form_state.
+ */
+function install_mark_dependencies($form, &$form_state) {
+  // Get a list of all of the modules that need installation.  We will
+  // use this later on to actually install the dependencies.
+  $form_state['storage']['projects'] = $form_state['values']['dependencies'];
+}
+
\ No newline at end of file
diff -upNr ./profiles/testing/testing.info ./profiles/testing/testing.info
--- ./profiles/testing/testing.info	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ ./profiles/testing/testing.info	2009-07-23 01:27:37.614604269 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+; $Id: default.info,v 1.1 2009/07/15 02:08:41 webchick Exp $
+name = Testing
+description = Create a Drupal site with the most commonly used features pre-installed.
+version = VERSION
+core = 7.x
+dependencies[] = block
+dependencies[] = color
+dependencies[] = comment
+dependencies[] = help
+dependencies[] = image 
+dependencies[] = menu
+dependencies[] = path
+dependencies[] = taxonomy
+dependencies[] = dblog
+dependencies[] = search
+dependencies[] = toolbar
+dependencies[] = cck
diff -upNr ./profiles/testing/testing.profile ./profiles/testing/testing.profile
--- ./profiles/testing/testing.profile	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ ./profiles/testing/testing.profile	2009-07-23 01:27:37.614604269 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+<?php
+// $Id: default.profile,v 1.56 2009/07/20 18:51:36 dries Exp $
+
+/**
+ * Implement hook_profile_tasks().
+ */
+function testing_profile_tasks() {
+  $tasks = array(
+    'testing_profile_site_setup' => array(),
+  );
+  return $tasks;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Installation task; perform actions to set up the site for this profile.
+ *
+ * This task does not return any output, meaning that control will be passed
+ * along to the next task without ending the page request.
+ *
+ * @param $install_state
+ *   An array of information about the current installation state.
+ */
+function testing_profile_site_setup(&$install_state) {
+
+  // Enable some standard blocks.
+  $values = array(
+    array(
+      'module' => 'system',
+      'delta' => 'main',
+      'theme' => 'garland',
+      'status' => 1,
+      'weight' => 0,
+      'region' => 'content',
+      'pages' => '',
+      'cache' => -1,
+    ),
+    array(
+      'module' => 'user',
+      'delta' => 'login',
+      'theme' => 'garland',
+      'status' => 1,
+      'weight' => 0,
+      'region' => 'left',
+      'pages' => '',
+      'cache' => -1,
+    ),
+    array(
+      'module' => 'system',
+      'delta' => 'navigation',
+      'theme' => 'garland',
+      'status' => 1,
+      'weight' => 0,
+      'region' => 'left',
+      'pages' => '',
+      'cache' => -1,
+    ),
+    array(
+      'module' => 'system',
+      'delta' => 'management',
+      'theme' => 'garland',
+      'status' => 1,
+      'weight' => 1,
+      'region' => 'left',
+      'pages' => '',
+      'cache' => -1,
+    ),
+    array(
+      'module' => 'system',
+      'delta' => 'powered-by',
+      'theme' => 'garland',
+      'status' => 1,
+      'weight' => 10,
+      'region' => 'footer',
+      'pages' => '',
+      'cache' => -1,
+    ),
+    array(
+      'module' => 'system',
+      'delta' => 'help',
+      'theme' => 'garland',
+      'status' => 1,
+      'weight' => 0,
+      'region' => 'help',
+      'pages' => '',
+      'cache' => -1,
+    ),
+  );
+  $query = db_insert('block')->fields(array('module', 'delta', 'theme', 'status', 'weight', 'region', 'pages', 'cache'));
+  foreach ($values as $record) {
+    $query->values($record);
+  }
+  $query->execute();  
+
+  // Insert default user-defined node types into the database. For a complete
+  // list of available node type attributes, refer to the node type API
+  // documentation at: http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/hook_node_info.
+  $types = array(
+    array(
+      'type' => 'page',
+      'name' => st('Page'),
+      'base' => 'node_content',
+      'description' => st("Use <em>pages</em> for your static content, such as an 'About us' page."),
+      'custom' => 1,
+      'modified' => 1,
+      'locked' => 0,
+    ),
+    array(
+      'type' => 'article',
+      'name' => st('Article'),
+      'base' => 'node_content',
+      'description' => st('Use <em>articles</em> for time-specific content like news, press releases or blog posts.'),
+      'custom' => 1,
+      'modified' => 1,
+      'locked' => 0,
+    ),
+  );
+
+  foreach ($types as $type) {
+    $type = node_type_set_defaults($type);
+    node_type_save($type);
+  }
+
+  // Default page to not be promoted and have comments disabled.
+  variable_set('node_options_page', array('status'));
+  variable_set('comment_page', COMMENT_NODE_HIDDEN);
+
+  // Don't display date and author information for page nodes by default.
+  variable_set('node_submitted_page', FALSE);
+
+  // Create an image style.
+  $style = array('name' => 'thumbnail');
+  $style = image_style_save($style);
+  $effect = array(
+    'isid' => $style['isid'],
+    'name' => 'image_scale_and_crop',
+    'data' => array('width' => '85', 'height' => '85'),
+  );
+  image_effect_save($effect);
+
+  // Enable user picture support and set the default to a square thumbnail option.
+  variable_set('user_pictures', '1');
+  variable_set('user_picture_dimensions', '1024x1024');
+  variable_set('user_picture_file_size', '800');
+  variable_set('user_picture_style', 'thumbnail');
+
+  $theme_settings = theme_get_settings();
+  $theme_settings['toggle_node_user_picture'] = '1';
+  $theme_settings['toggle_comment_user_picture'] = '1';
+  variable_set('theme_settings', $theme_settings);
+
+  // Create a default vocabulary named "Tags", enabled for the 'article' content type.
+  $description = st('Use tags to group articles on similar topics into categories.');
+  $help = st('Enter a comma-separated list of words.');
+
+  $vid = db_insert('taxonomy_vocabulary')->fields(array(
+    'name' => 'Tags',
+    'description' => $description,
+    'machine_name' => 'tags',
+    'help' => $help,
+    'relations' => 0,
+    'hierarchy' => 0,
+    'multiple' => 0,
+    'required' => 0,
+    'tags' => 1,
+    'module' => 'taxonomy',
+    'weight' => 0,
+  ))->execute();
+  db_insert('taxonomy_vocabulary_node_type')->fields(array('vid' => $vid, 'type' => 'article'))->execute();
+
+  // Create a default role for site administrators.
+  $rid = db_insert('role')->fields(array('name' => 'administrator'))->execute();
+
+  // Set this as the administrator role.
+  variable_set('user_admin_role', $rid);
+
+  // Assign all available permissions to this role.
+  foreach (module_invoke_all('permission') as $key => $value) {
+    db_insert('role_permission')
+      ->fields(array(
+        'rid' => $rid,
+        'permission' => $key,
+      ))->execute();
+  }
+
+  // Update the menu router information.
+  menu_rebuild();
+
+  // Save some default links.
+  $link = array('link_path' => 'admin/structure/menu-customize/main-menu/add', 'link_title' => 'Add a main menu link', 'menu_name' => 'main-menu');
+  menu_link_save($link);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Implement hook_form_alter().
+ *
+ * Allows the profile to alter the site-configuration form. This is
+ * called through custom invocation, so $form_state is not populated.
+ */
+function testing_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
+  if ($form_id == 'install_configure') {
+    // Set default for site name field.
+    $form['site_information']['site_name']['#default_value'] = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
+  }
+}