This is a metapackage which depends upon several other pike packages that together make up the recommended pike installation. if you want to install every packaged component of the pike distribution, please install the package pike7.6-meta.

if you want to remove several components this package depends upon, you can purge this package without worrying about the functionality loss in pike and then remove the packages you don't need on your system.

pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information see the description of the pike7.6-core package or visit the url below.