Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:
> I'm glad I wrote down my about-to-be-deleted config first. An an upgrade to anything that want to modify *.config, I so to the dir and save about-2-be-deleted version of all config files. For example in /etc/cups/ printers.conf printers.conf.31aug11 printers.conf.5dec10 printers.conf.6jun2011 printers.conf.orig (original) I could use the optional names during the updates, but those names are non sensical to me. It's saved my bacon on too many occasions, as cups it not the only brain_dead software and keeping config records that can be date correlated, helps on a variety of issues. Occasionally I prune the files.... I asways use hplip with HP printers. ymmv, James