Drupal core patches with Commerce Kickstart 2.0 In the installation instructions for Commerce Kickstart 2.0, it alludes to the fact that Kickstart has two patches to the core.  See instructions at https://drupalcommerce.org/commerce-kickstart-2/install.

Did these patches make it into Drupal 7.34? I am asking because I don't want an install of Drupal core with Commerce Kickstart; I just want the Commerce Kickstart code without the core. I don't want to use the installer.
Basing on the content of the drupal-org-core.make file that comes with the distribution, I can say the patches are not part of Drupal 7.34. In fact the make files requires Drupal 7.34, and then lists the patches to apply.

projects[drupal][version] = 7.34

; Patches for Core
projects[drupal][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/issues/install-redirect-on-empty-database-728702-36.patch"
projects[drupal][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/drupal-1470656-14.patch"
projects[drupal][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/drupal-865536-204.patch"
projects[drupal][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/issues/drupal-7.x-allow_profile_change_sys_req-1772316-28.patch"
projects[drupal][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/1275902-15-entity_uri_callback-D7.patch"


You could apply those patch manually, but you would still be missing all the patches the distribution is applying to third-party modules. See all the lines containing [patch][] in the drupal-org.make file. The following lines are the ones for the Features module, but you can find more lines for other modules.

projects[features][version] = 1.0
projects[features][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/1572578-part-one.patch"
projects[features][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/1597186-1-features-do-not-cache-includes.patch"
projects[features][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/927566-multiple-link_path.patch"
projects[features][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/1669720-fix-features-flush-cache.patch"