Minor factions. I love them. I was wondering if I could get advice on some xml changes to bring them back-

My vision is to

1) bring back all the mionr factions.  I notice they are still present in the race-configs, so that data should still be in there.

2) Alter what they are. Id like them to be different in that they dont build pioneers and the leaders wont be channelers for the most part. that seems to be more straitforward.

Basically, the advice is related to bringing back the minor factions- it seems like the easiest way is to make them 'custom' factions, give them alignments, and then in the XML for them just 'disallow' pioneers.  Am I on the right track?