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On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>>> Igor2, all,
>> ...
>>
>> Long term goals include subcircuit-in-subcircuit, maybe supporting
>> hierarhical netlist too, and when these happen, your use case will become
>> a trivial addition on top of the strong infrasucture.
>>
>> However, please note that even small parts of this infrastructural
>> change is very expensive and will take long. I'd be happy if we got only
>> the first 3 stages I listed in the original mail finished in the next 2
>> development cycles. And that means we "only" replaced the old footprint
>> model with subcircuits.
>
> Do you have any plan on howto bring structure into pcb-rnd?

There is already structure in pcb-rnd.