fix: do not set MANIFEST_FILE since we set --build_runfile_link

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🔁 Reproduce

❌ delivery (delivery-uncacheable · delivery-gha-debug · delivery-gha · delivery-uncacheable-warn)

# --mode=always --track-state=false for off-runner with no state backend.
aspect delivery \
  --commit-sha=1e22f8c7f001812911acc85fe1a59c8838738fba \
  --mode=always \
  --track-state=false \
  --dry-run=true

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