[Gnome and Polkit require different dev-lang/spidermonkey versions that can't be installed at the same time]

I tried emerging gnome yesterday. Unfortunately, I got into a problem with spidermonkey and gvfs, and now I'm also encountering a problem with spidermonkey and polkit: https://bpaste.net/show/8ab7df616c39

 

I've tried looking at Gentoo's bugtracker, and I found this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552786

While I was in the #funtoo irc channel, angry_vincent was able to help me with patching spidermonkey-24 so that I may emerge gvfs, but I'll save that as Oleg has suggested the same in the bugtracker (and to focus more on spidermonkey and polkit).

 

I've also encountered the conflict between the version of spidermonkey that gnome pulls in and the version of spidermonkey that polkit pulls in.

 

Thanks to angry_vincent from irc, for finding this:

Version bump, use spidermonkey-185 because of problems with memory handling when using mozjs-17 (#553334)

https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-auth/polkit/polkit-0.113.ebuild?view=log

 

 

Apparently some were still able to emerge gnome, even after the notice in the link above was posted. So something else may have been changed.

 

You guys aren't the only one seeing this problem. I just thought of sharing of what angry_vincent and I found, if it helps. :)