apt-get remove question

Hi there,

New user here. I installed the gnome-applets package and as expected
apt-get automatically added 40MB of gnome required stuff. Now I want
to remove the gnome-applets package. I try with:

apt-get remove --purge gnome-applets

But I'm only offered the option to remove the gnome-applets package
alone, about 815Kb. How can I remove everything that was downloaded
and installed along with gnome-applets?

Thanks in advance,

-Benton

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