Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5569
Thanks for checking it out and the feedback.
Merging this...
> Building the quickstart project with the Execute maven goal method in
IntelliJs Maven Projects window causes flink-dist to be included in the jar.
This also happened when disabling the IntelliJ profile.
I think that is not a big issue...---
