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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> How is enabling a configuration already present in `man` out of scope,
> but running an *ENTIRELY* different program--such as konqueror or
> woman--to view man pages is not?
>
>   git help --man git
>
> Doesn't even necessarily run man *already*.

As an end-user, I do not expect Git to run konqueror or woman with
its own tweaks when it does so.  And I do not see a reason why "man"
should be any different.