[zdw]

X11 never really fit in anyway. It was nearly always a special extra package to add in, and frequently lagged behind the open source effort they sponsored.

The upside of this, much like with Java and other similar unbundlings, is that updates to the software are no longer in lockstep with OS releases.

In the end, we get a lower likelihood of it being installed, but a higher likelihood that it's up to date.