Hi Ben, You may want to look at "rosprotect", which I spotted in Daniel's new documentation for eros: http://www.ros.org/wiki/eros_python_tools It probably can give you the effect you're looking for. - Ken On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Axelrod, Benjamin wrote: > I understand the usage of ROS_NOBUILD and ROS_BUILD_BLACKLIST and that they > work on packages.  But are there any plans to extend their usage to also > work on stacks? > > Or better yet, to be able to place them at any location in > the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH which will cause all directories underneath to be > excluded?