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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, it's definitely a dirty hack - but it's a dirty hack that is somewhat
necessary, and used to be possible, and now it's not, so... regression, dude!
:)

Yeah, yeah, I'm a spacebar heater, I know... :D

https://xkcd.com/1172/

I'd argue that while using a footprint as a via is a dirty hack, the simple
concept of allowing footprints on the PCB that aren't on the schematic is
*not*. Lots of people want to be able to place things like mounting holes
without having to put them in the schematic. (Whether or not that's best
practice is beside the point, it's very common.)

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 04:47:38PM +0100, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> On 29.01.2016 16:23, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > Okay, after testing this, I actually have two "bug reports", one that I
> > consider fairly important, and one that's minor.
> > 
> > Important one: IMO there *needs* to be an option to only add or update
> > components, not remove. Here's the list of suggested changes for a board where
> > I manually added via stitching using a via "footprint" and the array tool:
> > 
> > https://misc.c4757p.com/nooooooo.png
> > 
> > I don't want to remove those!! It's not a 'standard' use case, perhaps, but
> > it's still a regression, as I was previously able to make it keep those.
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I wouldn't call it a regression. Stitching vias with single-pad
> components is just a dirty hack we'll have to live with until we get a
> new connection propagation algorithm. Until then, I agree we should have
> an option preventing component removal.
> 
> > 
> > Minor one: don't say "Netlist update successful!" in the list of _proposed_
> > changes, it's a bit confusing as it seems to imply the changes have actually
> > been made.
> 
> Good catch!
> 
> Tom
>