Alpine has to use OpenRC rather than systemd because it's designed to run in containers. Using cgroups or lxc requires running your container with elevated priv

Alpine has to use OpenRC rather than systemd because it's designed to run in containers. Using cgroups or lxc requires running your container with elevated privileges. This doesn't only affect systemd, it also makes it impossible for me to run Nix builds in unprivileged containers with isolation enabled, since isolation requires cgroups.