More Strict Dependency Control for ROS Nodes

[oguzkaganozt]

Checklist

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• I've searched other issues and no duplicate issues were found.
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Description

• Regarding the size of containers and on bare-metal setups, loose dependency declarations are one of the problems.
• We should have finer grained dependency control in each ros nodes package.xml

Purpose

• Reduce setup time
• Reduce setup size
• Fine grained control over dependency scheme

Possible approaches

Instead of just relying on <depend>, we should leverage other dependency tags :

• <build_depend>
• <test_depend>
• <exec_depend>
• <doc_depend>

The list of Top 25 ROS nodes that includes most <depend> tags

Definition of done

• Investigate and complete the top 25 ROS nodes that have the most dependencies