gEDA-user: Preventing elements from appearing in BOM

[Matthew Lewis <whammy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a way to prevent a device from appearing in the BOM and in the 
XYRS file? The problem I'm trying to solve is that I have a pin defined 
in my schematic for attaching a wire to the PCB. There is no actual 
device to be installed. In order to get the pin to show up on PCB's 
rat's nest, I defined a dummy device with a hole for a footprint. This 
allows the rat's nest to show that there's something that needs to be 
added to the PCB layout. The problem now is that the dummy device shows 
up in the BOM and is also being placed in the gerber XYRS file. So the 
question is how do I get the hole to be recognized by the rat's nest on 
PCB, but get omitted from the BOM and the XYRS exports?

I've also noticed that the BOM generated by the export function of PCB 
is showing the device's footprint rather than the device name for the 
description. Is this correct?


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