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On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, mskala AT ansuz DOT sooke DOT bc DOT ca wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Peter Clifton wrote:
>>> I have found bug reports about this dating at least as far back as May
>>> 2005, but nothing seems to have been done about it in nine years.
>>
>> Its not like we can arbitrarily change any of the existing symbols..
>> doing so would break otherwise working designs.
>
> Is that really true?  At least on the PCB side, changes to footprint files
> don't seem to take effect on a board unless the user goes through a
> laborious process to manually replace them one by one.

It is different in gschem.

In short: gschem default is external ref and you can embed the symbol. In 
pcb you always embed, there's no other option afaik.

Regards,

Tibor