> It seems to me that you cold accomplish most, if not all, of what you
want with a good deployment recipe.

Perhaps this is in fact what we are looking for:
https://www.getchef.com/chef/. It allows you to set up an OS in a
standardized and re-usable way. It would be much more feasible to have a
repo of library-related "recipes" that allow us to have a standard,
automated process for setting up common library applications (primarily
thinking server here but client is also imaginable).

Josh Welker