On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:08 AM, William Woodall
<wwoodall@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> You could just as easily have depended on something like pcl_ros
> for an executable it has, or you might depend on a package for a python
> library it contains, but not for anything you need to declare in your
> CMakeLists.txt.

This (and the other bits I snipped) make pretty good sense. I knew
there was a good reason hidden back there somewhere; it's good to
understand it.

I think this is still a UX bug, but (as you mentioned) that's the
subject of ongoing work.

Thanks!

    --M

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Julian "Mac" Mason      mac@cs.duke.edu      www.cs.duke.edu/~mac