another packaging question -- should "purge" remove every trace?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  another best practises question -- if i "apt-get purge" a package,
should i expect to see every trace of that package removed from the
system?  i'm currently testing a package that, after purging, still
leaves a pile of stuff that it originally installed under /opt.
thanks.

  oh, and the installation created a user and group for that package,
but purging doesn't remove it.  based on what i know(?), removing that
package can leave behind the user and group account, but purging
should really get rid of it, no?

rday

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