Github user ctubbsii commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/160#discussion_r85227434
--- Diff: docs/src/main/asciidoc/chapters/iterator_design.txt ---
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ pitfalls.
To invoke an Accumulo Iterator inside of the TabletServer, the Iterator
class must be on the classpath of every
TabletServer. For production environments, it is common to place a JAR
file which contains the Iterator in
-`$ACCUMULO_HOME/lib`. In development environments, it is convenient to
instead place the JAR file in
-`$ACCUMULO_HOME/lib/ext` as JAR files in this directory are dynamically
reloaded by the TabletServers alleviating the
+`$ACCUMULO_LIB_DIR`. In development environments, it is convenient to
instead place the JAR file in
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I don't really find this more convenient or flexible than the old way. I
think it's fine to have a predictable directory layout convention. The less
reliant we are on these environment variables, the better, and I think that's
easier to do if we don't make more of them. If we do have scripts (such as the
cluster scripts) rely on environment variables, I think it's better to make
them dependent on fewer of them, essentially minimizing the API for that script.
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