Github user andrewor14 commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/699#issuecomment-42596635
I actually think an app name explicitly set by the application itself
should take precedence. It's a little strange to write an application, specify
a name, and have it overridden somewhere else. Otherwise we could potentially
give `SparkPi` an app name of `WordCount`, which is pretty confusing.
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