It looks this just requires taking out the checks.

I verified that, with the patch, I was able to run spark-shell through yarn without setting the environment variable.

Author: Sandy Ryza <sandy@cloudera.com>

Closes #553 from sryza/sandy-spark-1053 and squashes the following commits:

b037676 [Sandy Ryza] SPARK-1053.  Don't require SPARK_YARN_APP_JAR