gEDA-user: Another: Can I use static pins as vias?

[DJ Delorie]

> In  my board I used static pins (just for better hold with a rot-encoder) as a
> vias. Sadly I didn't figure out how to tell PCB not  to  complain  that  as  a
> short circuit. Is there a way to prevent PCB of complaining here?

Aren't those pins usually connected to something inside the component?
At least, to other hold-down pins?

Anyway, the only way to tell pcb to ignore them is to connect them in
the schematic, so that they're not shorts any more.