Pixi: Reproducible Package Management for Robotics
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·October 24, 2025dima55
This is the ROS way: add more layers of crap on it until it sorta kinda works sometimes. If you want "reproducible package management", use Debian. ROS1 is already in stock Debian. Some of ROS2 is as well. If you actually want ros to suck less, please package the reset of ROS2, and push it to Debian.
tamimio
Pretty much yeah, I remember I did some work with ROS2 after 1, and since then I always prefer to build from scratch, cleaner, simpler, and in many cases far better results too.
forgetbook
Any thoughts on Nix for this?
dima55
The packaging is only one of ROS's numerous issues. Just do it yourself.
Slightly interested if this makes it easier to install ROS on not-Ubuntu, or on "unsupported" Ubuntu versions, but I don't really want to be the one owning the infra behind running the source builds for ROS2, from my experience so far they're kind of slow. Side by side ROS1/2 for migration is kind of interesting, too.