Final answer:
When deploying a profile with components that refer to an uninstalled package, use 'packagePrefix__.*' in the 'replace_values' parameter to handle the package references.
Step-by-step explanation:
Imagine you want to deploy a profile to a new org, and the profile contains configurations such as field level security and Apex class access. If these configurations refer to components that are part of a package not yet installed in the destination org, Salesforce provides a mechanism to handle this by using a special syntax in the parameter called replace_values. The correct answer is C. Permissions, package. You would use packagePrefix__.* in the replace_values parameter to ensure that all references to the package in the profile are correctly handled during the deployment.