Reduce only build-related ROS packages - reduce docker image size

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I am building a custom ROS docker image to deploy it on a ubuntu xenial embedded board. The Dockerfile is shown below. When I build the container, the size is about 1,7 GB (which is not nuch bigger than a ros:kinetic-ros-core image anyway.

BUT I need it to be smaller!!! My suggestion is, that it might be possible to remove/uninstall those ROS packages and other sw which is only necessary for building my packages, but not needed after running "catkin build".

Does anyone know how this is done? When I try "apt remove ..." with e.g. the "ros-kinetic-roslint" package, even runtime relevant stuff gets removed. Help, please!

FROM ubuntu
LABEL version="0.0.4"

ENV ROS_DISTRO kinetic
ENV CATKIN_WS=/root/catkin_ws

RUN apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 421C365BD9FF1F717815A3895523BAEEB01FA116
RUN echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu xenial main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list

RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get -y --quiet --no-install-recommends install --allow-unauthenticated \
      build-essential \
      gcc \
      g++ \
      cmake \
      make \
      libusb-1.0-0-dev \
      python-wstool \
      python-catkin-tools \
      ros-kinetic-cpp-common \
      ros-kinetic-actionlib \
      ros-kinetic-actionlib-msgs \
      ros-kinetic-bond \
      ros-kinetic-bondcpp \
      ros-kinetic-catkin \
      ros-kinetic-class-loader \
      ros-kinetic-cmake-modules \
      ros-kinetic-gencpp \
      ros-kinetic-geneus \
      ros-kinetic-genlisp \
      ros-kinetic-genmsg \
      ros-kinetic-gennodejs \
      ros-kinetic-genpy \
      ros-kinetic-geometry-msgs \
      ros-kinetic-image-transport \
      ros-kinetic-message-filters \
      ros-kinetic-message-generation \
      ros-kinetic-message-runtime \
      ros-kinetic-nav-msgs \
      ros-kinetic-nodelet \
      ros-kinetic-pluginlib \
      ros-kinetic-rosbag \
      ros-kinetic-rosbag-storage \
      ros-kinetic-rosbuild \
      ros-kinetic-rosclean \
      ros-kinetic-rosconsole \
      ros-kinetic-roscpp \
      ros-kinetic-roscpp-serialization \
      ros-kinetic-roscpp-traits \
      ros-kinetic-rosgraph \
      ros-kinetic-rosgraph-msgs \
      ros-kinetic-roslaunch \
      ros-kinetic-roslib \
      ros-kinetic-roslint \
      ros-kinetic-roslz4 \
      ros-kinetic-rosmaster \
      ros-kinetic-rosout \
      ros-kinetic-rospack \
      ros-kinetic-rosparam \
      ros-kinetic-rospy \
      ros-kinetic-rostest \
      ros-kinetic-rostime \
      ros-kinetic-rostopic \
      ros-kinetic-rosunit \
      ros-kinetic-sensor-msgs \
      ros-kinetic-smclib \
      ros-kinetic-std-msgs \
      ros-kinetic-std-srvs \
      ros-kinetic-tf2 \
      ros-kinetic-tf2-msgs \
      ros-kinetic-tf2-py \
      ros-kinetic-tf2-ros \
      ros-kinetic-topic-tools \
      ros-kinetic-xmlrpcpp \
      ros-kinetic-mav-comm \
      ros-kinetic-mav-msgs \
      ros-kinetic-image-common \
      ros-kinetic-visualization-msgs \
      libopencv-dev && \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# copy my local src directory to the docker image
ADD src /root/catkin_ws/src

WORKDIR $CATKIN_WS

RUN catkin config --install --extend=/opt/ros/kinetic -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release && \
    catkin build --summarize

RUN rm -rf /root/catkin_ws/src
RUN rm -rf /root/catkin_ws/build
RUN rm -rf /root/catkin_ws/logs
RUN rm -rf /root/catkin_ws/devel

RUN strip --strip-all $(find /root/catkin_ws/install -name "*.so"); exit 0

RUN echo 'source "$CATKIN_WS/install/setup.bash"' >> ~/.bashrc

CMD ["bash"]