Comment 30 for bug 1251393

I can understand why edge cuts in footprints are usefull.

However, edge cuts in footprints are not easy to manage so they can be accepted only in V6.

For instance, edge cuts in footprints break the possibility to use polygons in boards to define a closed outline, because you cannot combine a polygon and a polyline.

If edge cuts in footprints are allowed, they can define a partial or full board outline or a hole.
Therefore a edge cut in a footprint needs attributes, and certainly more.
and if a full board outline is defined, how to combine it with others full board outlines?

In short: edge cuts in footprints must be carefully designed, and that exclude a last time change like a workaround.

A workaround sounds to me like a starting point for a future list of bugs.