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As far as I understand they are equivalent.

The only difference is that find_package(catkin COMPONENTS roscpp std_msgs) will consolidate all of the COMPONENTS into the catkin_* CMake variables, for instance catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS will contain roscpp_INCLUDE_DIRS and std_msgs_INCLUDE_DIRS.

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