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[discuss] cli,doc: doc deprecate --preserve-symlinks flags #41540

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### DEP0XXX: `node --preserve-symlinks` and `node --preserve-symlinks-main
<!-- YAML
added: REPLACEME
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Type: Documentation-only

Previously `node` supported an altered form of caching and resolution that did
not use realpathing via `--preserve-symlinks` and `--preserve-symlinks-main`.

This feature caused issues with various expectations around module resolution
and lacked maintainence sufficient to keep supporting it. Due to this, features
were developed that did not take it into account and led to these flags having
inconsistent behavior.


[Legacy URL API]: url.md#legacy-url-api
[NIST SP 800-38D]: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-38d.pdf
[RFC 6066]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6066#section-3
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