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Fix providesModuleNodeModules behavior to be more deterministic.
Currently, the `providesModuleNodeModules` option allows for specifying an array of package names, that the packager will look for within node_modules, no matter how deep they're nested, and treat them as packages that use the `@providesModule` pragma. In reality, this is not actually the behavior we want. npm, because of how it handles dependencies, can do all kinds of arbitrary nesting of packages when `npm install` is run. This causes a problem for how we deal with `providesModuleNodeModules`. Specifically...take `fbjs`. Currently, React Native relies on using the Haste version of `fbjs` (will be resolved in facebook#5084). Thus if npm installs multiple copies of fbjs...which is a very common thing for it to do (as can be seen by this list of issues: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=naming+collision+detected), we get into a state where the packager fails and says that we have a naming collision. Really, the behavior we want is for the packager to treat only a *single* copy of a given package, that we specify in the `Resolver` in the `providesModuleNodeModules` option, as the package that it uses when trying to resolve Haste modules. This PR provides that behavior, by changing `providesModuleNodeModules` from a list of strings to a list of objects that have a `name` key, specifying the package name, as well as a `parent` key. If `parent` is null, it will look for the package at the top level (directly under `node_modules`). If `parent` is specified, it will use the package that is nested under that parent as the Haste module. To anyone who reads this PR and is familiar with the differences between npm2 and npm3 -- this solution works under both, given the fact that we are now shipping the NPM Shrinkwrap file with React Native when it's installed through `npm`. In both the npm2 and npm3 case, node_modules specified by RN's package.json are nested underneath `react-native` in node_modules, thus allowing us to specify, for example, that we want to use React Native's copy of `fbjs` (not any other copy that may be installed) as the module used by the packager to resolve any `requires` that reference a module in `fbjs`.
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