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Permission sets for sensible defaults in module-provided permissions to roles

Created a feature that would be easily shareable among Drupal sites except for a big failing of Drupal to allow for module-provided sensible default permissions.

Features cannot update the names of roles

Features stores Drupal roles as their string name, not their ID. This is so that they are in theory exportable (like Views, variables, and - when enhanced by features_extra - blocks and vocabularies). Naming something by a machine name rather than an autoincremented numeric database ID allows

However, the only information carried with a role is its name! Therefore, trying to take a role name change from one site to another results in the following:

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