diff --git a/examples/Cargo.toml b/examples/Cargo.toml
index a25f526f1..c3dc60915 100644
--- a/examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ version = "0.0.0"
 publish = false
 edition = "2018"
 
+# If you copy one of the examples into a new project, you should be using
+# [dependencies] instead.
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { version = "0.2.0", path = "../tokio", features = ["full"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.3.0", path = "../tokio-util", features = ["full"] }