[quote="v-lopez, post:6, topic:5205"] As long as you source the original ROS workspace (say Kinetic) before building your custom distro, I believe the overlays work flawlessly. [/quote] I believe what @nuclearsandwich means to say is that you cannot have two install spaces active if they were not built as overlays. Your setup works, as `/opt/ros` was active while `/opt/pal` was built. But if that was not the case, there is no link between the two and `source`ing one will deactive the other. The setup described by the OP was like that. --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-ourdistro-style-add-on-rosdistro/5205/7) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: