Not sure about all hosts, but in my experience you can generally use an .htaccess file to override the values in php.ini for specific directories. I would think as long as that's there in the distro (which it is even in the default drupal distro), then that would take care of the problem.
I have installed drupal twice in the last two months, once two months ago and once a few days ago, both times using cvs. Neither distro had an .htaccess file included. FYI.
Lynn S.
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