Github user srowen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1717#issuecomment-133000700
You can add any third-party package with `--packages` or add it to your
application as a dependency. I don't think Josh is saying it _will_ be
deprecated, certainly not now. But this PR should be closed in favor of
continuing development elsewhere. That's a separate issue.
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