diff --git a/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD b/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
index 8e971cad6..c76cf8e51 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
@@ -1,15 +1,23 @@
 pkgname=postmarketos-base
 pkgver=43
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="Meta package for minimal postmarketOS base"
 url="https://postmarketos.org"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 makedepends="postmarketos-initramfs"
+# Several of these dependencies come from alpine - base, as the upstream
+# recommendation to not depend on openrc has been to copy them here:
+# https: // gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/71686#note_435428
 depends="
-	alpine-base
+	alpine-baselayout
+	alpine-release
+	apk-tools
+	busybox
+	busybox-suid
 	devicepkg-utils>=0.2.0
 	eudev
+	musl-utils
 	openssh-server-pam
 	postmarketos-keys
 	postmarketos-mvcfg
@@ -145,6 +153,9 @@ openrc() {
 		"
 	depends="
 		!systemd
+		alpine-conf
+		busybox-mdev-openrc
+		busybox-openrc
 		eudev-openrc
 		logbookd
 		logbookd-openrc
diff --git a/pmaports.cfg b/pmaports.cfg
index 7e4cea8a6..6000a2a51 100644
--- a/pmaports.cfg
+++ b/pmaports.cfg
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ supported_heimdall_depends=heimdall,android-tools
 [repo:systemd]
 pmaports_dir=systemd
 # Build forks of Alpine packages that support usr_merge
-bootstrap_1=abuild alpine-base
+bootstrap_1=abuild
 bootstrap_2=systemd
 # Build systemd related pkgs without deps on each other
 bootstrap_3=dbus linux-pam-pmos