WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/

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WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/
\ Mateusz A. Mierzwiñski (6 May 2008)
. \ Alan McKinnon (6 May 2008)
. . \ Alex Schuster (7 May 2008)
. . . \ Alan McKinnon (7 May 2008)

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Subject:	WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Mateusz A. Mierzwiñski
Date:	6 May 2008

/etc/init.d/vmware start
* VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
* for the running kernel.
* Please ensure that the modules have been compiled for this kernel:
* emerge --oneshot vmware-modules
* Also ensure VMware Server has been configured:
* /opt/vmware/server/bin/vmware-config.pl
* VMware is not properly configured! See
above. [ !! ]
* ERROR: vmware failed to start

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These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.17-r1 0 kB
[blocks B ] >=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 (is blocking
app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.5.80187)

Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 0 kB

!!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
installed
!!! at the same time on the same system.

For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked

What is that block? This should be installed? What is done with portage,
that blocks exists when I try to install software that is part of other
package (and higher package depend on it)?
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