On Thursday, 06 October 2016 at 18:58, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was surprised to see /usr/share/texlive on my system although I
> remembered very well removing it months ago. It turned out to be
> caused by two rpmsave files, although some *empty* directories weren't
> removed:
[...]
That's normal rpm behaviour. It only deletes directories if they're
owned by the removed package and empty.

> But then I decided to check my whole /usr tree and found more orphans
> than I expected.

Feel free to open bugs against the offending packages. Complete file and
directory ownership is mandated in the packaging guidelines.

Regards,
Dominik
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