We currently use conda/mamba to install dependencies for the granule ingester and Nexus components in both local dev environments and for building Docker images. This seems to have unwanted consequences as Docker appears to be forcing inclusion of some GPL-licensed tools and libraries that we don't seem to use but likely block releases under ASF policy. This issue was brought up in our IPMC graduation discussion as needing to be solved.
I'd like to propose replacing conda with another package manager like poetry or simply using pip. We could also take this opportunity to combine the two top-level Nexus modules so that they're not individual-yet-interdependent modules with their own dependencies, but rather two submodules of a single project with a single, shared list of dependencies.
