A Linux administrator on a Debian-based system runs the command sudo apt remove libjpeg62-turbo. The package manager's output shows that this action will also remove several other packages, including gimp and python3-pil. What is the most likely reason for this behavior?
libjpeg62-turbo is a metapackage that installs gimp and python3-pil.
Both gimp and python3-pil have a dependency on libjpeg62-turbo.
libjpeg62-turbo has a conflict with gimp and python3-pil.
The system's package database is corrupted, leading to incorrect removal suggestions.
The correct answer is that gimp and python3-pil depend on libjpeg62-turbo. When apt removes a package, it also removes any installed packages that declare a hard dependency (Depends) on that package to keep the system's dependency graph consistent. Conflicts work the other way around (two packages cannot coexist), metapackages are empty wrappers that depend on others, and database corruption would produce errors rather than a coherent dependency resolution.
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