An implementation of a technology, described herein, for software installation and/or configuration. At least one implementation, described herein, provides for the installation, configuration, or uninstallation of software components on one or more target computing systems. This described implementation includes a runtime interpreting installation and configuration ("install-config") program module and one or more data-based, runtime interpreted, install-config feature descriptions. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.