Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/237#issuecomment-38715395
We could also include them and log a message like "Including Datanucleus
jars needed for Hive" and then if someone happens to not want them (they
previously did a Hive assembly) then they'd know what was going on.
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