Github user pwendell commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/877#issuecomment-44162314 @aarondav @rxin @shivaram by the way, the main motivation here was to provide something that is portable between builds. I realize is not substantially more convenient (or at all more convenient) than assemble-deps.
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