I think I'd rather tackle this last issue through documentation and somewhat thorough release notes. This is largely a logistical issue since this particular release is going to be a monolithic tarball. At least, I don't have the time to organize anything like a split into "the best" and "the rest" tarballs.
Would that be OK? If we had our new site up with the smart download package available we could painlessly split things up in the repository in a sensible way ...
