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> To repeat my previous question: what's so hard about getting pcb to
> understand a circuit from a netlist?  This would allow a variety of
> custom "schematic alterations" that cannot happen if gPCB reads the
> schematic directly.

Since pcb *does* read netlists as part of its normal import, I guess
the answer is "it's not hard".  It imports other information too,
though, like footprint selections.

It sounds like your problem isn't getting pcb to understand a netlist,
it's getting the tools to emit the right netlist.