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[arne anka]

> I've run as a regular user on Debian, but updates would break most of
> it.

huh? what are you doing to make that happen?
breakages happend at most twice:
- when dbus was upgraded -- and that was remedied by putting the fso  
related changes in an additional file
- when nodm changed its configuration -- instead of managing these data in  
/etc/init.d/nodm it went to /etc/default/nodm

both changes happend a long time ago.