gEDA-user: A suggestion about the stuff on gedasymbols

[Darryl Gibson]

Steve Meier wrote:
> Any standard is better then none?
> 
> With that Idea in mind and a short story about a company for whom I once
> worked where i found that some one had repaired a board by arbitrarily
> replacing a component with another and their critical thinking seemed to
> be as long as it had the same number of pins it should work.
> 
> I propose organizing the parts based upon the number of pins to make
> such "repair efforts" even more efficient.

I worked in a shop were my predecessor put blown fuses back into the
fuse drawer. It took me ten minutes to figure out I was replacing bad
fuses with bad fuses, and another hour to sort the bad ones from the
good ones.

-- 
Darryl Gibson N2DIY
RLU X 182668/379552

“Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the
distinction of a free man from a slave.”   --  Andrew Fletcher, A
Discourse of Government with relation to Militias (1698)