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I love alpine, it's such a good fit when building rootfs for embedded devices with limited ram/rom. however I wish there can be a nixOS-like way to manage my configurations.

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It seems like this is more likely to happen by getting nixos smaller than making Alpine declarative.

It isn't perfect but I just end up installing nix (the package manager) and home-manager and hacking together my configuration through that.

The majority of my NixOS configuration is written in NixOS agnostic modules so it works pretty well.

I share my NixOS configurations between one bare metal Alpine install as well as an Alpine WSL2 install.

We are actually in the design phase for a declarative variant of Alpine using OSTree.

That sounds fun; is anything public yet / where should I watch for announcements?

If all goes to plan it will be part of Alpine 3.15 as a release variant.

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