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Store ComponentId details

Sylvain Henry requested to merge hsyl20/ghc:hsyl20-componentid into master
As far as GHC is concerned, installed package components ("units") are
identified by an opaque ComponentId string provided by Cabal. But we
don't want to display it to users (as it contains a hash) so GHC queries
the database to retrieve some infos about the original source package
(name, version, component name).

This patch caches these infos in the ComponentId itself so that we don't
need to provide DynFlags (which contains installed package informations)
to print a ComponentId.

In the future we want GHC to support several independent package states
(e.g. for plugins and for target code), hence we need to avoid
implicitly querying a single global package state.
Edited by Sylvain Henry

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