This patch is really a fix to the big commint
   73c08ab1
   Re-work the naming story for the GHCi prompt (Trac #8649)
which introduced the 'interactive' package
See Note [The interactive package] in HscTypes

The original commit set both
  (a) The tcg_mod field of TcGblEnv to 'interactive:Ghci4' (say)
  (b) The thisPackage field of DynFlags to 'interactive'

But the second step interacts badly with linking.  :loaded modules are
in the package set by 'thisPackage' (usually 'main'); if you change
that, then we try to link package 'main', but can't find it, and
that is what happened in #8831.

The fix was simple: do (a) but not (b).

I changed Note [The interactive package] in HscTypes to describe this.