Really the big finding here is that Xlib et. al. get pulled in to GPU compute tools, because access to GPU contexts has traditionally been mediated by the deskt

Really the big finding here is that Xlib et. al. get pulled in to GPU compute tools, because access to GPU contexts has traditionally been mediated by the desktop subsystem, because the GPU was traditionally "owned" by the rendering layers of the device abstraction. The bug here is much more a changing hardware paradigm than it is an issue with shared library dependencies that recapitulate it. Things moved and the software layers kludged along instead of reworking from scratch. Obviously what's needed is a layer somewhere in the device stack that "owns" the GPU resources and doles them out to desktop rendering and compute clients as needed, without the two needing to know about each other. But that's a ton more work than just untangling some symbol dependencies!