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> > Do what you think makes sense for your symbols; the device= attribute
> > is not used rigourously by any of the scripts.
> 
> Huh? It is heavily used by the netlisters. 

Not rigourously.  The pcb netlister ignores it, for example.  And
despite a desire to have a common meaning, in actual practice, the
device= value is not very reliably specified by the libraries anyway.
Those that do specify it, often give wrong or overly generic values.

Without a consistently adhered-to spec for what device= is, I'll stick
with "do what you think makes sense".