From afc194a135fe6d3680e471eeb177961eeffbcfb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:39:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man: say explicitly that $LESS + $LESSCHARSET have no effect
 on less invocations by systemd tools

Fixes: #29479
---
 man/common-variables.xml | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/common-variables.xml b/man/common-variables.xml
index 58a285c8335..2d26bf72428 100644
--- a/man/common-variables.xml
+++ b/man/common-variables.xml
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@
         </varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
 
+      <para>Note that setting the regular <varname>$LESS</varname> environment variable has no effect
+      for <command>less</command> invocations by systemd tools.</para>
+
       <para>See
       <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>less</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
       for more discussion.</para></listitem>
@@ -155,7 +158,10 @@
       <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSET</varname></term>
 
       <listitem><para>Override the charset passed to <command>less</command> (by default <literal>utf-8</literal>, if
-      the invoking terminal is determined to be UTF-8 compatible).</para></listitem>
+      the invoking terminal is determined to be UTF-8 compatible).</para>
+
+      <para>Note that setting the regular <varname>$LESSCHARSET</varname> environment variable has no effect
+      for <command>less</command> invocations by systemd tools.</para></listitem>
     </varlistentry>
 
     <varlistentry id='lesssecure'>