Rpm removal does not remove delivered dirs and leaves garbage

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Published on 2012-04-06T09:51:49Z Indexed on 2012/04/06 11:33 UTC
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I deliver an application via an RPM.

This application delivers various directories and files.
E.g. under /opt/internal/com
a file structure is being copied.

I was expecting that on rpm -e all the file structure delivered under /opt/internal/com will be removed.
But it does not.
There are directories in the file structure that are non-empty.

Is this the reason? But these (non-empty) directories were created by the RPM installation. So I would expect that they would be "owned" by RPM and removed automatically.

Is this wrong? Am I supposed to remove them manually?

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