Github user harishreedharan commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/807#discussion_r12802607
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The sink will be deployed to a Flume agent and not within the spark
application. Adding it in external/flume would require that all of the spark
dependencies be bundled with the jar, while keeping this module separate (which
does not depend on the rest of Spark) allows the user to simply deploy this jar
to the Flume plugins directory. In fact, this module does not have any
dependencies that Flume already does not pull in by default.
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