[gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

[Mick]

I am trying to clean up what seems like a remnant of a failed emerge, but I 
can delete the directory in question:

# rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-
r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale
rm: cannot remove `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-
r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale': Directory not 
empty

Am I missing something simple here?  Why can't I remove it?  It seems empty to 
me:

# ls -la /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-
r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 3 May 28 07:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 3 May 28 07:48 ..
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Regards,
Mick