Am Samstag, 1. September 2018 schrieb dep:
> somebody here knows the correct answer to this: i installed a meta-package 
> that brought in a bunch of stuff. turns out, i don't like it and want to 
> remove it and all its demonspawn. is there a command that uses the 
> meta-package to uninstall what it installed?
> 
> thanks.

usually "aptitude purge THEMETAPACKAGE" should remove all depending packages. 

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