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>    http://www.eevblog.com/forum/open-source-kicad-geda/seriously-irritated-with-the-library-editor!/
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> I intend to spend some time on this.

The most important sentence to me in the whole thread is this one:

"A lot of confusion would disappear if the part placement tool in the schematic editor
allowed for footprint assignment within the schematic editor. "

(I am not taking a stand on database design, only on the difficulty of specifying a
footprint.)