On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Ugo Cupcic <ugo@shadowrobot.com> wrote:
> The dependencies to rviz / gazebo are there to make sure both of those
> are compiled, but there is no real dependency between sr_hand and rviz.
> Is there a ROS way of making sure packages are compiled without adding a
> real dependency to the package?

No.  A package dependency entails the addition of the dependencies'
C/C++ build flags, Python module path, and possibly other code-level
settings.

As Josh suggested, you can create a third package, say
sr_hand_visualization, that depends on sr_hand and rviz, perhaps
containing just launch files.

	brian.