Github user chu11 commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1059#issuecomment-50501790
No, just launching normally via command line.
The purpose of this patch is convenience. Its purpose is similar to the
HADOOP_CONF_DIR, HBASE_CONF_DIR, etc. environment variables that exist with
Hadoop, Hbase, etc.
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