Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/852#issuecomment-44060793
This behavior has been in there for a while, so I'm curious, is there a
strong reason to change it? It would be a change in behavior that some users
might not expect. Users can always configure their own log4j.properties if they
don't want this one.
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