apk-del - Man Page

apk del [<options>.​.​.​] packages.​.​.​

apk del removes packages from world and uninstalls them if no longer required by any other packages.​

apk del supports the commit options described in apk(8), as well as the following options:

-r,  --rdepends

Recursively delete all top-level reverse dependencies, too.​

apk(8), apk-add(8).