This is just a code cleanup; it should not be behavior change.
`addWantedOutputs` is removed by introducing `DerivationTrampolineGoal`.
`DerivationGoal` now only tracks a single output, and is back to
tracking a plain store path `drvPath`, not a deriving path one. Its
`addWantedOutputs` method is gone. These changes will allow subsequent
PRs to simplify it greatly.
Because the purpose of each goal is back to being immutable, we can also
once again make `Goal::buildResult` a public field, and get rid of the
`getBuildResult` method. This simplifies things also.
`DerivationTrampolineGoal` is, as the nane is supposed to indicate, a
cheap "trampoline" goal. It takes immutable sets of wanted outputs, and
just kicks of `DerivationGoal`s for them. Since now "actual work" is
done in these goals, it is not wasteful to have separate ones for
separate sets of outputs, even if those outputs (and the derivations
they are from) overlap.
This design is described in more detail in the doc comments on the goal
types, which I've now greatly expanded.
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This separation of concerns will make it possible for future work on
issues like #11928, and to continue the path of having more goal types,
but each goal type does fewer things (issue #12628).
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This commit in some sense reverts
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