Ability to add more ROS packages to the rosification
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Seems like only certain ROS packages are included.
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Would be nice to be able to include additional ROS packages for installation into the wrapped environment via some configuration change. For example, "gazebo_msgs" is presently not included in the installation, and I'd like to include that. Furthermore, if I want to create custom ros packages, I'd like to be able to add those python packages to the wrapped environment too.
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Additional context
Hey @Safdark thanks a lot for your issue. I currently use conda-forge to install the main ROS packages (see line 22 of the ros_conda_wrapper). These conda-forge packages are created by Wolf Vollprecht and some other ROS community members to make ROS packages available on Conda (you can follow this gitter to keep up to date with the project).
I will add the essential ROS packages that became available after my last release to the ROS_CONDA_FORGE_DEP. Additionally, I could add an extra -p flag after the rosinit command so that people can supply provide other non-essential ROS packages like gazebo to be installed during the initialization. Is that what you had in mind or were you thinking of another mechanism?
I checked this feature request and it would require some code restructuring to have the ability to supply additional packages with the conda Rosification command. Additionally I currently do not think this feature would be very usefull as you can just use the conda install command to install additional packages. The init command only installs the bare minimum of packages in order to be able to use ROS inside a Conda environment.