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Well, technically ya could. Given some effort you could entirely replace it, but there's usually no point. Take NixOS' package manager as an example. You can drop it into any dsitro and use their repos, but anything you can find there you'd usually be able to find in your native repos.
nixpkgs in my experience has more packages than most other distributions. For example they ship a ton of OBS plugins