Github user mridulm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/299#issuecomment-39402736
We will need to continue support for a few of these (SPARK_JAVA_OPTS for
example) - which are currently getting pretty heavily used.
We can issue a deprecated warning to the user, but removing them will break
too many cron'ed jobs already running.
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