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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 17:17:05 +0200
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Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>> A sufficiently versatile package format would provide a solution to
>> this problem. A package can be viewed as a way to integrate the
>> knowledge about the various aspects of components.
>>
>> A package can be as simple as a set of symbols and footprints. In
>> this case the knowledge would be the implicit statement that these
>> symbols and footprints are compatible. But it can also provide a
>> list of footprints which can be combined with a specific symbol. It
>> can also provide the information that a component needs to be
>> represented by a set of symbols (e.g. a opamp could be represented
>> by a triangle symbol and a separate supply symbol)
> 
> What about opamps that have more involved pinouts? For example I
> have some instrumentation opamps that are really involved.

I don't quite get what you are aiming at. Can you give an example for 
such a component?

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