Move merging original_cwd into overlay directories into VcpkgPaths. #1522
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This work is part of resolving microsoft/vcpkg#30942 / https://devdiv.visualstudio.com/DevDiv/_workitems/edit/1979597
When overlay directories from the config were added in #743 this added a condition where VcpkgPaths took responsibility to tack on the relative path, transforming those paths that come from the config into absolute paths. I did not realize at the time that this block was repeating machinery already present in IOverlayProvider family. The difference is that, there, it always assumed the prefix would be original_cwd.
As part of adding overlay-port-dirs, I needed to add the same kind of prefix handling as overlay-ports get, thus pointing this out to me. It doesn't make sense to keep two independent ways to do this, leaving two options:
I chose to move into VcpkgPaths for several reasons: