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> I think it would be rather good to separate symbols from pin mapping
> and in such case symbols would have symbolic information only.

I agree, I wrote something up about this a while ago:

http://www.delorie.com/pcb/pin-mapping.html

It assumed there was a new tool that used various heruistics and rules
to "heavify" a symbol, including adding a pin map:

http://www.delorie.com/pcb/component-dbs.html