since I didn't know whether vmware-any-any-update41.tar.gz would work, I just downloaded http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/obsolete/vmware-any-any-update40.tar.gz into /usr/portage/distfiles and everything went fine Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
updated the ebuilds to use 41 instead of 40