Replace man with mandoc?

[mcepl]

Looking at distrobox-init it seems that man (the Gnu one with groff) is a mandatory part of any distrobox container? Is it true? What if I want to replace it with mandoc?

distrobox enter --root on this container (of course, without the mandoc line commented out) now fails with:

Resolving package dependencies...

Problem: 1: the installed mandoc-1.14.6-6.1.x86_64 conflicts with 'man' provided by the to be installed man-2.12.1-1.1.x86_64
 Solution 1: deinstallation of mandoc-1.14.6-6.1.x86_64
 Solution 2: do not install man-2.12.1-1.1.x86_64

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c/d/?] (c): c