I noticed that installing ros-humble-ros-gz-sim in ros:humble-ros-base pulls huge amount of development utilities, development headers and other packages that are not necessary in deployment.
You can try running apt install ros-humble-ros-gz-sim in the ros:humble-ros-base docker (or on a clean ROS install)
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The dependencies in package metadata should be reviewed as most of dev packages are necessary just as a build time dependency but not as runtime dependency and should not really be installed. Most of these come from the fact, that libignition-gazebo6-dev is listed as dependency rather than libignition-gazebo6.
I attached the output of apt-rdepends ros-humble-ros-gz-sim.
rdepends.txt
I noticed that installing
ros-humble-ros-gz-simin ros:humble-ros-base pulls huge amount of development utilities, development headers and other packages that are not necessary in deployment.You can try running
apt install ros-humble-ros-gz-simin the ros:humble-ros-base docker (or on a clean ROS install)The dependencies in package metadata should be reviewed as most of dev packages are necessary just as a build time dependency but not as runtime dependency and should not really be installed. Most of these come from the fact, that libignition-gazebo6-dev is listed as dependency rather than libignition-gazebo6.
I attached the output of
apt-rdepends ros-humble-ros-gz-sim.rdepends.txt