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> I observed that, somehow, pcb remembered the library file settings,

Look in $HOME/.pcb/

You can also create ~/.pcb/settings which act like gui-independent
command line options to always apply, or ./pcb.settings for
per-project command line options.

> process).  The part came through fine!  This seems to indicate that pcb 
> only looks at the footprint of the first slot only.

Not PCB, but the netlister (gnetlist) which pcb calls.  IIRC, if only
one slot has a footprint attribute, it uses that attribute, but if
each slot has a footprint attribute and they differ, it's undefined
which one is chosen.  If they all have the same footprint, it's OK,
but only because it doesn't matter which one is chosen.