Issues when installing Drupal Commons + general issues with .install and hook_requirements

I downloaded Drupal Commons, and successfully added it as a platform in via hostmaster. Great!

However, when I try to provision a site in the commons platform, several fatal errors come up during module initialization. Frown!

In my case, this worked out OK, because I can still use the platform's install.php to manually install a new commons site.
However, it made me think: why does manual install work OK, even with hook_requirements errors, but provisioning fails?

Is there a flag to throw at the provision commands that will allow hook_requirements() runtime errors to be ignored?

I believe these are the relevant lines from debug output:

The getID3() module cannot find the getID3 library used to read and write ID3 tags. The site administrator will need to verify that it is installed and then update the settings. [31.42 sec, 6.91 MB] [error]
An error occurred at function : drush_provision_drupal_provision_install_backend [31.42 sec, 6.91 MB] [error]

and

Running profile specific task : profile [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD imagecache: non-existant action canvasactions_definecanvas [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD imagecache: non-existant action canvasactions_definecanvas [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD features: Rebuilding commons_core / content. [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD features: Rebuild completed for commons_core / content. [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD features: Rebuilding commons_core / fieldgroup. [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD features: Rebuild completed for commons_core / fieldgroup. [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD commons: Welcome to Drupal Commons from Acquia! [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Publish comment' added. [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Unpublish comment' added. [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Publish post' added. [31.42 sec, 6.9 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Unpublish post' added. [31.42 sec, 6.91 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Make post sticky' added. [31.42 sec, 6.91 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Make post unsticky' added. [31.42 sec, 6.91 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Promote post to front page' added. [31.42 sec, 6.91 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Remove post from front page' added. [31.42 sec, 6.91 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Save post' added. [31.42 sec, 6.91 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Block current user' added. [31.42 sec, 6.91 MB] [notice]
WD actions: Action 'Ban IP address of current user' added. [31.42 sec, 6.91 MB] [notice]
WD rules: An error occured during rule evaluation. It follows the evaluation log: 0 ms "User account details have been updated" has been invoked. [error]
0.128 ms Executing the rule "Heartbeat: when user edits a profile, log user activity" on rule set "User account details have been updated"
1.004 ms Action execution: "Logs user activity for single users"
1.09 ms Unable to find "action" of name "heartbeat_rules_default_action" with the label "Logs user activity for single users". Perhaps the according module has been deactivated.
1.149 ms Evaluation of "User account details have been updated" has been finished.

This is filed as a support request because I have not researched enough to figure out if this is an actual bug.