I wish there'd be something like uci/nix - but general purpose. OpenWrt's uci is an amazing config abstraction ontop of a rather generic Linux, whilst Nix can generate a whole OS, effectively. I wish there was something like that but ontop of alpine. That'd be so neat... Like, specify packages, specify abstracted configs and just import the lot. Would definitively make things easier. Might work on that some day, to a degree. There is libconfuse which is very close to UCIs syntax - and combining that with /etc/apk/world should do ... to a degree.