ccp4 README: note that install is slow, not stuck

Untarring 3.7 GB into ~15-20 GB of small files on shared /opt/psi takes
10-30 min silently; documented so nobody kills a healthy build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -43,6 +43,20 @@ https://www.ccp4.ac.uk/download/ and update `files/config.yaml`, or drop a
hand-downloaded tarball into the distfiles dir under the `name:` given in
`files/config.yaml`.
## Install is SLOW — not stuck
The `install` step untars 3.7 GB into ~15-20 GB of small files on shared
/opt/psi storage: the tar alone runs 10-30 min with no output (gzip is
single-threaded, small-file creation on network storage is the
bottleneck), and `BINARY.setup` afterwards walks the whole installation
for several more minutes. Watch progress from a second shell:
```bash
watch -n 30 'du -sh /opt/psi/MX/ccp4/9.0/'
```
Growing `du` = working. Only investigate if it's frozen for 10+ min.
## Known failure modes
- **"done" but broken install**: modbuild has no errexit in hooks — errors in