Somewhat off-topic:<p>Fellow longtime Gentoo and recent Alpine user here. I haven&#x27;t encountered undue conflict burden from configuration file updates. Some projects do churn whitespace etc, in configuration defaults files, which is unfortunate but not specific to any distro.<p>If an application supports a conf.d style override, I use that, containing only settings which differ from default.<p>Is there something inherent about Alpine packaging that handles local config differently?