diff --git a/contrib/alpine/README.md b/contrib/alpine/README.md
index 411f32e2..885db35d 100644
--- a/contrib/alpine/README.md
+++ b/contrib/alpine/README.md
@@ -8,17 +8,18 @@ and other tools needed to build a GNU configure based project.
 To start with you need to first install [libuEv][] and [libite][], by
 default they install to `/usr/local` and Alpine's `pkg-config` does not
 look for libraries and header files there.  So the `PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR`
-environment variable has to be used:
+environment variable must be used:
 
     alpine:~/finit# PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure \
         --enable-rw-rootfs            --enable-progress                    \
-                                      --enable-x11-common-plugin           \
+        --enable-dbus-plugin          --enable-x11-common-plugin           \
         --enable-alsa-utils-plugin    --enable-inetd-echo-plugin           \
         --enable-inetd-chargen-plugin --enable-inetd-daytime-plugin        \
         --enable-inetd-discard-plugin --enable-inetd-time-plugin           \
         --with-heading="Alpine Linux 3.6" --with-hostname=alpine
 
-The plugins are optional, but the other configure flags are *not*.
+The plugins are optional, but you may need D-Bus and X11 if you want to
+run X-Window, the other configure flags are however required.
 
     alpine:~/finit# make all install
 
@@ -31,11 +32,11 @@ yourself to point to `finit` instead of `/bin/busybox`.
     alpine:/sbin# ln -s finit init
 
 Before rebooting, make sure to set up a [/etc/finit.conf](finit.conf),
-and possibly also an [/etc/rc.local](rc.local) for one-shot set up and
-initialization like keyboard language etc.  You can use the files in
-this directory as templates -- check them both if they need to be
-tweaked for your installation, you may not run Dropbear SSH or speak
-Swedish ...
+and [/etc/finit.d/](finit.d) for your services, possibly also an
+[/etc/rc.local](rc.local) for one-shot set up and initialization like
+keyboard language etc.  You can use the files in this directory as
+templates -- check them both if they need to be tweaked for your
+installation, you may not run Dropbear SSH or speak Swedish ...
 
 [libuEv]: https://github.com/troglobit/libuev
 [libite]: https://github.com/troglobit/libite