Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3800 @greghogan I think we should keep the `force-shading` approach to have every project pass through the shade plugin, for various reasons. Resolving variables (as required here) is one of them, but filtering of configuration files, signature files, etc. are also very good reasons. Also, there may be "single use" shaded dependencies in non-scala projects, which could still be shaded on the fly in the using project directly (netty in flink-runtime would be such a case).
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