Document use of the file:// scheme in Python installation mirrors (#6984)

Documenting https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/6950
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@@ -83,11 +83,13 @@ In addition, uv respects the following environment variables:
can be set to a mirror URL to use a different source for Python installations. The provided URL
will replace `https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/releases/download` in, e.g.,
`https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone/releases/download/20240713/cpython-3.12.4%2B20240713-aarch64-apple-darwin-install_only.tar.gz`.
Distributions can be read from a local directory by using the `file://` URL scheme.
- `UV_PYPY_INSTALL_MIRROR`: Managed PyPy installations are downloaded from
[python.org](https://downloads.python.org/). This variable can be set to a mirror URL to use a
different source for PyPy installations. The provided URL will replace
`https://downloads.python.org/pypy` in, e.g.,
`https://downloads.python.org/pypy/pypy3.8-v7.3.7-osx64.tar.bz2`.
`https://downloads.python.org/pypy/pypy3.8-v7.3.7-osx64.tar.bz2`. Distributions can be read from a
local directory by using the `file://` URL scheme.
- `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`: Used to specify the path to uv user-level configuration directory on Unix
systems.
- `XDG_CACHE_HOME`: Used to specify the directory where uv stores cache files on Unix systems.