A computer system in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention includes one or more data miners configured to mine software deliverables for metadata, a metadata filter configured to generate a filtered view of metadata associated with a subset of the software deliverables, an inventory generator configured to generate an inventory of the subset, a rules manager configured to generate rules using the filtered view and the inventory, where the rules are based on software relationships within the subset, and a package generator configured to generate a knowledge package based on the rules, where the knowledge package includes guidelines for obtaining the subset and installing the subset.