Excerpts from Siteshwar's message of 2014-05-29 20:18:30 +0200:
> On my Fedora system uninstalling fish removes /etc/fish directory. So the
> files installed by other packages under /etc/fish/external_completions will
> also get deleted. 

rpm (deb or other proper package management systems) will not remove files or
directories that do not belong to the package in question.

if a directory owned by fish contains files not owned by fish then that
directory will not be removed.

this discussion has some clues about what's happening:
http://www.linux-archive.org/rpm-package-manager/92948-removing-directories-files-rpm-erase.html

greetings, martin.

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