Apt-Fail…

I wanted to remove mono because it was causing some weird dependency problems, and I don’t need it. Here’s what Apt wanted to do:

WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
apt debian-archive-keyring (due to apt)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1073 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 3076MB disk space will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase ‘Yes, do as I say!’
?] no
Abort.