Not at my computer now, but that cannot be correct. Could recommended packages be included in that list?
I did apt-purge snapd on my xubuntu 20.04 and it did not pull out anything unrelated.
When you install something later an it tries to pull in something later you can always try --no-install-recommends.
In the worst case there is eqivs https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/HackingDependencies but it has been 3+ years that I needed to use that the last time.
Not at my computer now, but that cannot be correct. Could recommended packages be included in that list?
I did apt-purge snapd on my xubuntu 20.04 and it did not pull out anything unrelated.
When you install something later an it tries to pull in something later you can always try --no-install-recommends.
In the worst case there is eqivs https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/HackingDependencies but it has been 3+ years that I needed to use that the last time.