Github user rmetzger commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3604
Yes, the idea is that users in some environments can even delete
`flink-dist-hadoop.jar` entirely, and just configure the classpath correctly to
point to the Hadoop lib folder of their hadoop distribution.
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