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Even though alpine packages multiple init systems openrc is the only supported one. I have been working on making others easier to use but this doesn't mean any official support by alpine.

@sertonix @postmarketOS yes. I don’t think we want support more than one init system. We don’t mind anyone packaging other init systems but you are pretty much on your own if you do.

Natanael Copa

@sertonix @postmarketOS also, we use OpenRC not because it is great but because we started with it decades ago and no good alternatives that officially supports musl has popped up since then.

@sertonix @postmarketOS “No good alternatives” was bad wording. Of course there are good alternatives. What I meant was alternatives that are so much better than OpenRC that it justifies the cost of switching