[bobajeff]

Yeah not to knock their contribution but I was hoping they'd help make system package management as easy as npm package management. If I want to install say r-studio and octave apt will install a bunch of packages with dependencies. But what if I decide I don't want r-studio or any of the other stuff related to r on my system? I can't just do apt remove r-studio.

This is why I I've been using conda, appimages and chroot jails lately. Still no solution though.

[everforward]

You can use 'apt autoremove' to remove transitive dependencies that aren't required anymore. I think you sometimes have to run it multiple times, though, because it won't recognize that a dependency of a transitive dependency is no longer required after removing the first transitive dependency.

[bobajeff]

Thanks, that actually sounds like that will work.

[craftkiller]

What doesn't `apt-get purge r-studio` accomplish? Are you saying you want your R/python files deleted too?