Enhancement Request - KickStart files for Oracle Validated Configurations

Just a thought, but I would like to request that the "Oracle Validate Configurations" also include an example kickstart file that contains the necessary RPMs above the default. In addition, in the %post section, all of the OS modifications (e.g. sysctl parameters, user accounts, ulimits, pam.d mods) that need to be completed for an Oracle installation could also be provided.
I have found some on the web and from suppliers such that I have created a kickstart file that is working for me and my hardware, but my mind would be at ease if there were more "sanctioned" versions out there.
FYI -- Reading through the documentation, it appears that OEM module for Oracle Linux provides the mechanism to create a kickstart file in the bare metal provisioning features.

A good start has already been done on OTN
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/saternos_kickstart.html

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NJ, (and segio, please take my response in account),
If you read between the lines of my response I (more or less) make the some of the point you do.
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