Hi,
I've just installed ros from the pre-compiled packages, and I see the
binary packages depend on a lot of -dev packages, automake, autoconf,
etc...
Is there a rationale behind that?
I would believe that one of the advantages of pre-compiled binaries is
that it make it easier to install ros on an embedded system, with
limited hard-drive/flash space, all of which get lost if the ros
packages pull close to 1GB of dependencies.
How much community interest would there be behind separating the
packages into binary and -dev packages, the binary having very limited
dependencies?
Otherwise, the install from source can be compiled and deployed within
200MB, incl. roscore (roscpp, rospy), opencv, and image pipeline, laser
pipeline, laser drivers, but no tf (brings in bullet and a lot of
friends) and no rviz.
Cheers
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