Enabling publishing infrastructure feature by default in sharepoint 2010?

I know how to in the settings activate publishing feature on a site but is it possible to have this by default when a new site is created from the UI?

I have some customized stylesheets and when a new team site is created it doesn't load these but instead looks like a sharepoint site out of the box. When I go to settings and activate publishing f开发者_StackOverfloweatures the page reloads with the custom stylesheets. I wish to not have to do this every time a new site is created. Is there a solution to this?

Thanks in advance.

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I guess you could either:

1. Build a site template (can't remember if these store feature activations)

2. Build a custom site definition, and activate the features you need

3. Build a stapling feature to tie your feature to the site definition