Why is my SYSTEM tablespace not freeing space?

Oracle 9.2.0.4.0 (64 bit) on Solaris 9
I have around 50 (similar) schemas on my database (each schema has 15 stored proc packages). This morning I saw the SYSTEM tablespace has only 1.5MB free (normally it has 10MB free).
Since I am running very low on physical OS disk, I decided to drop 5 unwanted schemas.
I was hoping that it will free 3 5 MB of SYSTEM space, since procedures, functions, packages, and triggers resides in the SYSTEM tablespace.
But this did not happen after dropping 5 schema I still have 1.5MB free, I did not even get a meg. Why is that, am I missing someting?
I will solve my disk problem some other way, but[b] I am now very interested in finding out why I did not get more free space from Oracle after dropping schemas that had many packages.
Thanks in advance if you have some info for me.
Regards, Nazrul Islam

Dropping users will not free any space in system tablespace (not that you will see in dba_free_space, anyway) unless those users have segments (i.e. tables, indexes, clusters etc) stored in system. The packages owned by the users you dropped are stored in rows in various tables in the data dictionary. When you drop the user, Oracle essentially does something like:
DELETE FROM obj$
WHERE owner# = < user_id of the user beign dropped >The space for these rows is allocated in existing extents in obj$ and the other tables, just like any other data in the database. The space freed by the delete remains allocated to the table.
HTH
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