I'm trying to create a solution package for a set of features within a SharePoint site. I want to create an instance of a generic list (using ListInstance in the element manifest) and add an additional column to it (since by default they only have a Title column) without having to go through activation code.
Is there a way to do this through CAML? So, far I'm sort of stuck with the idea of having to create a custom content type but that means I would have to have a separate feature that activates at the Site level to deploy the content type first.