Can we add Manjaro repository to Arch-Linux?

Question

Can we add a Manjaro repository to Arch-Linux, or is it different from how arch-repos work? If so, how can we do it?

Solution

Yeah, you can, you can set the repositories in pacman.conf and your mirrorlist, so if you were to make your arch linux pacman.conf look like the pacman.conf on a manjaro installation, and do similar changes for the mirrorlist (needs to point to a manjaro mirror), pacman commands would seek packages from the manjaro repositories. (there may be a few extra steps, like installing the manjaro keyring for example)

Whether or not it's a good idea on the other hand... Well, it's not, it's a horrible idea, don't do it. Just use manjaro if you want manjaro repos. I don't see any reason why you'd be better off doing it any other way. Something's gonna break if you do this. A lot of somethings, probably.

Even if you were to successfully do this, at the end of the day you would, after you get everything working, end up with manjaro, not arch.

If you wanna install some manjaro package, you don't have to go through all this trouble at all, you can just download the pkg file and install it with pacman -U to see if it works.

Comments

[Jakob Bennemann]

You may be able to add them to your pacman.conf like you can with other non-official repositories. Though, I would wonder why you would want to do this.

[brauliobo]

how? one example is to use an older kernel, linux 4.19 is crashing with amdgpu, linux 4.18 isn't, and manjaro keep old kernels' packages

[David Costa]

I think OP would like to do the other way around, use Manjaro repos on a Arch installation

[goetzc]

@DavidCosta yes, that's why "so it might be a bad idea to do the opposite" xD. Also, Manjaro had a bit older versions of the Arch packages, they took a while to bring latest releases (not sure what's the current status), better might be to just use the AUR.