Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6075 The dependencies of the `flink-connector-filesystem` are not well set up already, having an Avro dependency and a Hadoop dependency. I agree that it would be good to not introduce yet more dependencies, or at the very least, make them optional dependencies. FYI: In the re-work of the BucketingSink under [FLINK-9749](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9749), we want to introduce a `BulkEncoder` interface in `flink-core` that is used by the BucketingSink, and can be implemented by classes in `flink-orc` (and later a new `flink-parquet` project). That way we cleanly separate dependencies of the projects.
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