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On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 09:16:10 -0400
"Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de> wrote:
> > Nicklas Karlsson  wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, only problem with star ground symbol in gschem is how many pins
> >> it should have. In pcb for many cases it would make sense with one
> >> common connection point.
> >>
> > Last time this topic surfaced on the mailing list the most practical
> > suggestion was to exploit a pecularity of text in copper:
> > The connection check of geda-pcb completely ignores letters. Insert a
> > large "-" and make regular tracks overlap with the character but not
> > connect to each other.
> 
> That is a scary bug.

According to my oppinion ideally DRC should look on copper layer not which symbol it belong to. If it look on nets only I guess it could more or less temporary assign some net to all copper objects.