Have you been following the weather fanart
thread ?
If you did, you must have noticed how many people have trouble adding the xml code to their skin, jus to get it to work.
And there's probably a weather fanart thread in every skin's subforum too with posts of frustrated people who only see a black screen as soon as they added the weather fanart pack.
The same applies to all other mods. There are currently about a dozen mods for Aeon and they are all great. But the problem is, they are not compatible.
If you apply a mod, it will probably break another mod. And if you apply three mods, you'll probably break the entire skin.
So my approach is the spare people all this frustration and provide a solution that will work out of the box. All mods are fully included and most of them enabled by default.
I realize this comes at the cost of a bigger download size, but it'll save you a lot of time later.
I hope i soon will be able to move my skin to some svn site, which will deal with the problem of having to download everything again on each update.
Believe it or not, i've got a few requests to even add more artwork to Transparency!.
Like they say, size doesn't matter. ;-)