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Which means, that if a host, defined in [[hosts.xml]] has a profile '''default''' (the first profile above), it will have '''acrobat''' and '''firefox''' installed - because '''profile id="default"''' contains these two packages.
Now take a look at '''<depends profile-id="default" />''' entry in the next profile - '''<profile id="custom">'''.<br>
This profile only seems to contain a '''thunderbird''' package.<br>
But because it ''depends'' on '''<profile id="default">''', which contains two more packages ('''acrobat''' and '''firefox''') - it all sums up, and in the end, a host with a profile '''custom''' will have three packages installed: '''acrobat''', '''firefox''' and '''thunderbird'''.
This way you can easily create a group of packages to be installed on all workstations (for example, in profile '''default'''), and then create specific profiles for different rooms, departments etc.
Profiles can depend on more than one package.
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