yes, i wish i would be more aware what's going on over in dcore, but i haven't ever tried how much they are compatible.
i'm mostly using tinycore, and i use alpine inside a chroot when i'm lazy to compile missing stuff myself, debian packages are often too outdated for my usage. but i'd like to benefit from some kind of package generalization without my ghetto-chroots
i'd be very curious about your results...