Как удалить nodejs из Ubuntu 16.04?

Шаги для репликации:

Ubuntu 16.04 xenial (x86-64)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install npm

Я хочу удалить nodejs и npm и увидел несколько сообщений, которые предлагают это самый распространенный способ:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove nodejs

Однако это вызывает подсказку, которая, как представляется, ссылается на зависимости, которые, если они были удалены, звучат так, как будто они могут вызвать проблемы.

Каков наилучший способ «отменить» установку nodejs и npm?

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gyp* libboost-python1.58.0* libjs-inherits* libjs-node-uuid*
  libjs-underscore* libssl-dev* libssl-doc* libuv1* libuv1-dev*
  linux-headers-4.4.0-18* linux-headers-4.4.0-18-generic*
  linux-headers-4.4.0-21* linux-headers-4.4.0-21-generic*
  linux-image-4.4.0-18-generic* linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic*
  linux-image-extra-4.4.0-18-generic* linux-image-extra-4.4.0-21-generic*
  linux-signed-image-4.4.0-18-generic* linux-signed-image-4.4.0-21-generic*
  node-abbrev* node-ansi* node-ansi-color-table* node-archy* node-async*
  node-block-stream* node-combined-stream* node-cookie-jar*
  node-delayed-stream* node-forever-agent* node-form-data* node-fstream*
  node-fstream-ignore* node-github-url-from-git* node-glob* node-graceful-fs*
  node-gyp* node-inherits* node-ini* node-json-stringify-safe* node-lockfile*
  node-lru-cache* node-mime* node-minimatch* node-mkdirp* node-mute-stream*
  node-node-uuid* node-nopt* node-normalize-package-data* node-npmlog*
  node-once* node-osenv* node-qs* node-read* node-read-package-json*
  node-request* node-retry* node-rimraf* node-semver* node-sha* node-sigmund*
  node-slide* node-tar* node-tunnel-agent* node-underscore* node-which*
  nodejs* nodejs-dev* npm* python-configobj* python-pycurl* python-pyexiv2*
  python-pyexiv2-doc*
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 72 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 631 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Редактировать:

Это вывод из sudo apt-get purge nodejs:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gyp libboost-python1.58.0 libjs-inherits libjs-node-uuid libjs-underscore
  libssl-dev libssl-doc libuv1 libuv1-dev linux-headers-4.4.0-18
  linux-headers-4.4.0-18-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-21
  linux-headers-4.4.0-21-generic linux-image-4.4.0-18-generic
  linux-image-4.4.0-21-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-18-generic
  linux-image-extra-4.4.0-21-generic linux-signed-image-4.4.0-18-generic
  linux-signed-image-4.4.0-21-generic python-configobj python-pycurl
  python-pyexiv2 python-pyexiv2-doc
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  node-abbrev* node-ansi* node-ansi-color-table* node-archy* node-async*
  node-block-stream* node-combined-stream* node-cookie-jar*
  node-delayed-stream* node-forever-agent* node-form-data* node-fstream*
  node-fstream-ignore* node-github-url-from-git* node-glob* node-graceful-fs*
  node-gyp* node-inherits* node-ini* node-json-stringify-safe* node-lockfile*
  node-lru-cache* node-mime* node-minimatch* node-mkdirp* node-mute-stream*
  node-node-uuid* node-nopt* node-normalize-package-data* node-npmlog*
  node-once* node-osenv* node-qs* node-read* node-read-package-json*
  node-request* node-retry* node-rimraf* node-semver* node-sha* node-sigmund*
  node-slide* node-tar* node-tunnel-agent* node-underscore* node-which*
  nodejs* nodejs-dev* npm*
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 49 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 27.6 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]