Comment 20 for bug 1787961

Yes, I'm definitely opposed. We can't have a Net control in the Edit Track & Via properties that is ignored when you click OK. (The control is not new; it's been there at least since 4.0.)

The control is also useful. Our current board update mechanism doesn't always update tracks. So if you change (for instance) a global label in your schematic and then update the board, you'll have tracks that still refer to the old net. If we remove the feature then it's unclear how you'd fix that. (I'm sure there's some way to kick the connectivity algorithm to get the pads propagated outwards, but this certainly isn't obvious to a user.)

But I also disagree with the fundamental notion that the error is caused by the change. The error appears *before* the new code is run. The new code only *exposes* the error, it doesn't cause it.