Re: gEDA-user: PCB paste layer, revisited.

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Imagine, that you have a 431 pin BGA. Would you include 431 times
> the same padstack in the footprint? I think one should bother with
> the whatever shape, and size of the stencil, copper, mask, paste
> layers. Those are just "pads".  Then we could link pads to a
> padstack, and the padstacks into the footprint.

For sanity's sake, let's let a footprint define its pad stacks for its
own pads, rather than trying to maintain a global cache of padstacks.

Then, a BGA footprint would have one "here's what my pads look like"
and 431 copies of "put one here".


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