Minimal ROS2 Installation
Is there a repo file available that produces a minimal ROS2 installation similar to ros-base from ROS1?
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Awesome. I didn't even think to try the old setup. Thanks.
Looking for the same thing as OP. I've been following the ROS 2 build guide here: https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Instal...
For a minimal install, I should run rosinstall_generator prior to the colcon build command, correct?
How big should the ros_base download be? I tried this with foxy and it downloaded >800 MB of source repos.
That's a little higher than I'd expect. If you check out the tarballs with just the latest checkout I see 124MB. Dependeing on what packages you're pulling the repositories from you can have a good amount of historical versions included in the default clone of the repositories, especially the release repositories which are not optimized for minimal git clones.
