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docs: Include warning when configuring token to install private packages
The distinction between `secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN` and `secrets.NPM_TOKEN` cost myself and a colleague numerous hours when we were trying to fix a GitHub Actions workflow which needed to install a private package from a different repository from our GitHub organisation. Given the issue dedicated to this point is closed, we should include a warning here to make it more clear why `secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN` will not work when passed to `npm ci`, in the presence of private packages from other GitHub Package repositories.
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# `npm rebuild` will run all those post-install scripts for us.
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- run: npm rebuild && npm run prepare --if-present
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NOTE: As per https://github.com/actions/setup-node/issues/49 you cannot use `secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN` to access private GitHub Packages within the same organisation.

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