apache/spark — pull request #49 by pwendell (2014-02-28 20:12:36+00:00)
Title: SPARK-1121: Use 'avro' profile in Maven.

This lets us explicitly include Avro based on a profile for 0.23.X
builds. It makes me sad how convoluted it is to express this logic
in Maven. @tgraves and @sryza curious if this works for you.

I'm also considering just reverting to how it was before. The only
real problem was that Spark advertised a dependency on Avro
even though it only really depends transitively on Avro through
other deps.