ghc-pkg: don't expand ${name}-style env vars by default
For shell-based build systems the feature is still available as: ghc-pkg register --expand-env-vars Historically, ghc-pkg allowed environment variables to appear in the input files for ghc-pkg register. They are not stored in the package database but are expanded upon registration. This feature helped for build systems based on makefiles and shell scripts. These days the vast majority of such files are generated by Cabal and we don't want any ${name} strings (e.g. perhaps in a package description) getting accidentally interpreted as an environment variable.
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