Features - Is there a way to push changes back into the database I have a fairly good understanding of the way that features works:


Make changes to your test site.
Create a feature which contains the changes.
Copy the new module (which was created by features) to live.
activate the new module.
Verify that the changes now exist on the live site.


This works great, but is there a way to take the changes that are contained in the new feature module and move them into the live database?  My goal is to reduce the number of active modules I have on my live site.
Once the module generated by Features has been activated and the status on the overview page reads "Default" the changes are in the database. "Default" means that the database configuration matches the configuration defined in the module. (The status "overridden" indicates that the module generated by Features does not match the database configuration.

I think what you want to ask is, "How can I disable a Feature-generated module without losing the configuration that it provided?", which has been asked on this site before.