heavy dependencies of libvtk-dev

[Anton Gladky]

Hi Johannes,

packaging of the vtk9 is placed here [1]. If you have some technical solution,
how to solve the issue, feel free to contribute. Yes, vtk9 is a large package.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/vtk9

Best regards

Anton

Am Mo., 23. Okt. 2023 um 20:22 Uhr schrieb Johannes Thrän
<johannes.thraen at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> libpcl-dev has uneccessarily heavy dependencies. This is, because it depends on the visualization part of pcl, which in turn pulls in libvtk and libvtk-qt and with it a desktop environment.
>
> In containerized build environments, where one just need respective headers to link against, this is problematic. To my knowlegde, there's no way around it.
>
> How could we help to improve on this situation?
>
> BR, Johannes
>
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