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Subject: Re: [geda-user] [pcb] mainline: redundant attributes: bug or
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gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu writes:
> I did not find any sign that the import sch would set element attributes - 
> maybe that was the plan, to import attributes from the schematics, but it 
> never happened? Does the pcb netlist format even support that?

File->Import doesn't use a netlist, it uses an action script.  That
script sets element attributes from symbol attributes.