bin-package-db-0.0.0.0: The GHC compiler's view of the GHC package database format

This library is shared between GHC and ghc-pkg and is used by GHC to read package databases.

It only deals with the subset of the package database that the compiler cares about: modules paths etc and not package metadata like description, authors etc. It is thus not a library interface to ghc-pkg and is *not* suitable for modifying GHC package databases.

The package database format and this library are constructed in such a way that while ghc-pkg depends on Cabal, the GHC library and program do not have to depend on Cabal.