Simple module created with Features to install some basic admin modules:

Enables the site frontpage setting to be exported with Features module.

This module provides a field formatter for an entity reference field.

Feeds Tamper UTF-8 Encode provides a simple plugin to encode data in UTF-8 before it gets saved

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Using variable_set() is a very expensive operation that can cause cache stampedes and other horrible side effects for performance.