Karajan Mahler 6 - exposition repeat = cut-and-paste?

[Herman]

A composer - be it Josef Haydn or Philip Glass - may enclose a passage of music in "repeat" marks.  From a composer's point of view, this is done for reasons of economy, and I suppose to reduce page-turning for the performer.  From an interpretive point of view, the most literal meaning is simply "play the same again" and it would be difficult to argue against doing just that.

"play the same again"  -  but not in literally the same way.