[DISCUSS] Interest in "client" and "server" tarballs?

[Josh Elser]

Had an ask from some $dayjobs folks to split up the "monolithic" hbase 
binary tarball that we generate in the build into two pieces:

1. A minimal installation which would only contain things that "normal 
users" would need.
2. A server-side installation which would not contain things only used 
by clients (in reality, I think this would be essentially the same as 
our current tarball).

This would be pretty simple to do in >=2.0.0 with some extra assembly 
descriptors (with some of the extra break-out of classes previously in 
hbase-server), but I wasn't sure what kind of interest other folks would 
have. Obviously, I would only want to suggest such a change if there was 
buy-in from everyone else; otherwise, it will just cause fragmentation 
in the project. It's something easily (I think) achievable outside of 
the standard build process, so it's not something super-critical to be 
maintained upstream.

Any thoughts?

- Josh