apk-del(8)
apk del - remove constraints from world and commit changes
apk del [<options>...] constraints...
apk del removes constraints from world (see apk-world(5)) and commits changes to disk. This usually involves removing unneeded packages, but may also cause other changes to the installed 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.