Few might remember that Alpine was originally based on Gentoo. You can still find some old references (like mkinitcpio hooks for fbsplash).

Possibly the biggest hint is /etc/apk/world, the "worldfile", or the list of explicitly installed packages. It's even the same verbiage Gentoo uses (albeit a different location - Gentoo stores it somewhere under /var)

Alpine is hoping to replace it with s6.

For those who haven't heard of s6 before (like myself) here is the homepage: https://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/ and the repo: https://github.com/skarnet/s6

S6 and the Obarun-developed wrapper 66 Suite are really really nice. I hope more distros pick it up.

Not by s6, but s6 author may introduce a new init for alpine

Either way, I've been watching that s6 project for a couple years now and am looking forward to when that happens. Is there any progress on that front? I hadn't heard that the replacement might not actually be s6.

Not really.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AlpineLinux/comments/ug3ipr/any_new...

Yup, we use Alpine on all of our hypervisors, the init system has never been a problem :P