I installed 'axel' to download the things from internet. So I thought of removing the 'wget'. But when I did the same using command

#sudo apt-get remove wget

It removed google chrome as well. Why this happened?

rana@Brahma:~$ sudo apt-get remove wget

[sudo] password for rana: 

Sorry, try again.

[sudo] password for rana: 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  libfolks-telepathy25 libpurple0 telepathy-salut libfolks-eds25 gir1.2-ubuntuoneui-3.0 libindicate-gtk3 libnspr4-0d

  telepathy-indicator nautilus-sendto-empathy libmission-control-plugins0 libfolks25 folks-common libnice10 libgssdp-1.0-3

  telepathy-haze libubuntuoneui-3.0-1 libavahi-gobject0 libtelepathy-logger2 libtelepathy-farstream2 telepathy-mission-control-5

  telepathy-logger telepathy-gabble gstreamer0.10-nice libgupnp-1.0-4 libpurple-bin libmeanwhile1 libzephyr4 libfarstream-0.1-0

  libgupnp-igd-1.0-4 empathy-common

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

The following extra packages will be installed:

  curl

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  flashplugin-installer foomatic-db-engine google-chrome-stable hplip printer-driver-postscript-hp ubuntu-standard wget

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  curl

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 137 kB of archives.

After this operation, 161 MB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Get:1 http://archive.linux.duke.edu/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main curl i386 7.22.0-3ubuntu4.6 [137 kB]

Fetched 137 kB in 2s (54.1 kB/s)

(Reading database ... 216983 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing flashplugin-installer ...

Removing foomatic-db-engine ...

Removing google-chrome-stable ...

update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/firefox to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode.

update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/firefox to provide /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode.

Removing printer-driver-postscript-hp ...

Removing hplip ...

Removing ubuntu-standard ...

Removing wget ...

Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...

Processing triggers for cups ...

Processing triggers for man-db ...

Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...

Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...

Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...

Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...

Processing triggers for install-info ...

Selecting previously unselected package curl.

(Reading database ... 216722 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking curl (from .../curl_7.22.0-3ubuntu4.6_i386.deb) ...

Processing triggers for man-db ...

Setting up curl (7.22.0-3ubuntu4.6) ...

And here's the output of aptitude why google-chorme-stable wget:

rana@Brahma:~$ aptitude why google-chrome-stable wget

p   google-chrome-stable Depends wget