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Update docs for MacOS installs (#16854)

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ICU is an optional dependency and also a pain to install. Mention that
you can just not install it and still get a working installation.
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Update MacOS installation instructions to mention that libicu is optional.

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You may need to install icu, and make the icu binaries and libraries accessible.
Please follow [the official instructions of PyICU](https://pypi.org/project/PyICU/) to do so.
If you're struggling to get icu discovered, and see:
```
RuntimeError:
Please install pkg-config on your system or set the ICU_VERSION environment
variable to the version of ICU you have installed.
```
despite it being installed and having your `PATH` updated, you can omit this dependency by
not specifying `--extras all` to `poetry`. If using postgres, you can install Synapse via
`poetry install --extras saml2 --extras oidc --extras postgres --extras opentracing --extras redis --extras sentry`.
ICU is not a hard dependency on getting a working installation.
On ARM-based Macs you may also need to install libjpeg and libpq:
```sh
brew install jpeg libpq