Why record.packages is mandatory for deserialization

[GregoryBevan]

We're using avro4k-kafka-serializer in our project, and during our tests we realized that the consumer property record.packages is mandatory, but we can let it empty and the deserialization of our Kafka records is still made properly.

It seems that the deserialization process uses the Avro schema related to the record and is able to resolve the class in the classloader of the application.

So, we don't really understand the necessity of the record.packages config property.

Is there an explanation for it ?