I haven't figured out what's happening here, but it alarmed me. Should the snapcraft package be a Dependency of snap packages that were fabricated with snapcraft? Background: I wanted to test a development tree of snapcraft. To keep surprises away, I uninstalled Ubuntu's snapcraft package. The resulting messages from the system dpkg mention snap packages that are on my machine. I do not expect snapcraft to have anything to do with snap packages I might have installed. $ sudo apt purge snapcraft [sudo] password for cmiller: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: snapcraft* snapcraft-examples* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 190 not upgraded. After this operation, 803 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y create mode 120000 "systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/snaps-tor\\x2dmiddle\\x2drelay.chadmiller-0.2.7.6\\x2d3.mount" delete mode 120000 systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/tor-middle-relay_tor-middle-relay_0.2.7.6-2.service create mode 120000 systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/tor-middle-relay_tor-middle-relay_0.2.7.6-3.service create mode 100644 "systemd/system/snaps-tor\\x2dmiddle\\x2drelay.chadmiller-0.2.7.6\\x2d3.mount" delete mode 100644 systemd/system/tor-middle-relay_tor-middle-relay_0.2.7.6-2.service create mode 100644 systemd/system/tor-middle-relay_tor-middle-relay_0.2.7.6-3.service (Reading database ... 645615 files and directories currently installed.) Removing snapcraft-examples (2.6.1) ... Removing snapcraft (2.6.1) ... This might be nothing, but a bunch of delete/create phrases seems like something is overstepping its bounds.