Scott Carey wrote:
In our case, we package our own rpm and have a few custom patches to Hadoop so removing one jar is a trivial thing to do in the short / medium term.
Added my thoughts on CLs to the MAPREDUCE-1700 bugrep. I do my own RPMs too, Ivy driven, tested by installing onto local VMs.There is scope for having a hadoop-redist project that contains everything needed to create RPMs or debs of Hadoop releases, with your own JARs in. volunteers to do this are welcome...
