Skip demos build when building the grid_map packages

[richibrics]

Hi,
I'm currently using ROS2 Humble and noticed that, in order to build the grid map packages, I also need to build the package 'grid_map_demos'.

I cannot use --packages-skip to skip it, since the meta package grid_map has a dependency on it.

How to workaround this problem ? I'd like not to skip the meta package grid_map build, because I use the metapackage in my dependency graph.

Thanks,
R

[paolopertino]

+1 follow

[Ryanf55]

Skip both packages, and don't rely on the metapackage unless you want everything in it.

IE, pick and choose what you need from below.

  <exec_depend>grid_map_core</exec_depend>
  <exec_depend>grid_map_ros</exec_depend>
  <exec_depend>grid_map_cv</exec_depend>
  <exec_depend>grid_map_msgs</exec_depend>
  <exec_depend>grid_map_filters</exec_depend>
  <exec_depend>grid_map_visualization</exec_depend>
  <exec_depend>grid_map_rviz_plugin</exec_depend>
  <exec_depend>grid_map_loader</exec_depend>
  <exec_depend>grid_map_demos</exec_depend>

Most people should just depend on grid_map_core and maybe grid_map_ros

[richibrics]

Yes it’s what I did and works anyway.
The only thing is that now packages depending on it need to depend on the core package and not on the meta package.
Thank you