At some point, you're so late to the party that you might as well just barge in and pretend you meant to do it all along. In this spirit: Has this gone anywhere? I took a quick peek around the current apt source tree and didn't see any sign of solvers.h. Also, I dispute the notion that writing C++ rots the mind. Why, I've been programming in C++ for over ten years, and warble gargle snaph gheet... Daniel