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The source based installations are designed to support people running on platforms without prebuilt binaries available or who do not want to or cannot use the prebuilt binaries.

For example your use case on most embedded devices prebuilt binaries do not exist.

If you don't want to build something because you have resolved the dependency externally, you can just remove it from your workspace. You will have to make sure that the external installation of the package is in your CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH.

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