On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:30 PM John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here is the situation: I've been playing around with new versions of Sphinx. 
> If I've installed a new version and then go back to an old version, the 
> directory local/lib/python2.7/site-libraries/sphinx/ is not removed and then 
> recreated, but instead the changed files are reinstalled, leaving remnants of 
> the previous version there. Is this how things are supposed to work?

That is definitely not how anything is supposed to work, nor is it how
it does work normally.  You'd have to describe exactly what you did
though.  FWIW pip keeps its own manifest of what files it installed,
so when you remove/upgrade a package it will normally remove all those
files first.

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