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Please kindly shut up if you're not even going to attempt to help OP. Their issue had nothing to do with the distro.
Allrighty, let's try turning it into "helping". When one finds themselves using manjaro, they should:
-Syyuu base --overwrite=*
;arch-chroot
, solve the problems. One can also trypacstrap-ing
instead.This is a rather high-level overview off the top of my head, and one would likely have to make a few tweaks here and there. Still, I hope it helps :)
What you described would ruin a perfectly good install. It's like installing Ubuntu then switching the repos to Debian and force overwriting installed files. Why not just install Debian (or Arch, in this case)?
I wonder how many people follow "well meaning" advice like this then blame Manjaro.
Well, that's kinda how I once converted my artix to arch (skipping a few f-ups on my part and the caveats of switching init), so I'm pretty sure it can work... Although I can try this in a VM if I have some spare time
It may work but there's no point in doing it. You get something that's neither proper Arch nor Manjaro.
Manjaro is built around a branch which doesn't exist in Arch, unlike other Arch derivates, and mixing the installed Manjaro packages with Arch packages can lead to unpredictable results.
That's why you change the repos, tho, instead of mixing those from arch and manjaro, and do overwrites to avoid trouble with their configs. Also, I have a feeling pacman tells you when a package managed by it is no longer in the repos, so you just remove it to not accidentally take part in another round of ddos-ing aur or whatever manjaro's packages currently do for fun.
As for why, that's just to avoid setting up everything from scratch