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Allow a profile to specify that it does not want to run the apps install tasks.
Something in the hook_apps_info would be ideal, along the lines of 'no install' => TRUE. When building client sites on top of distros, it is sometimes desirable to turn off this step as it shouldn't be used.
I will look into doing this soooon.