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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions doc/contributing/distribution.md
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Expand Up @@ -25,3 +25,11 @@ only as a semver-major change, unless the related feature or project is
documented as experimental. In addition, Node.js includes external projects as
internal dependencies. These may be replaced or removed at any time, provided
that doing so is not a breaking change.

## Executables

The Node.js distribution includes only executables whose names refer to software
that is vendored within the Node.js distribution. For example, Node.js includes
an executable `npm` to run the npm software included within the Node.js
distribution; Node.js does not include a `foo` executable which would download
software named Foo.