Comment 14 for bug 593944

@Wayne - I would oppose that, too, and that's not what I'm saying. I mean that for two-pin non-polarized components I shouldn't need to care about pin numbers or 0/180 deg rotation at all because the components (at least symbols for R, C, L etc.) are symmetric and could be in either rotation without affecting functionality at all. The EDA would just assist automatically by selecting the most convenient pin order (or rotation).

How that would be implemented in code or in UI is beyond my current capabilities, but I thought that pin swapping could help with that high level goal. And I hope you understand what is this high level goal - namely not needing to care about pin order where the pin order isn't functionally relevant at all and only forces me to do extra unnecessary work. It's like rotating all resistors while manually populating the physical board so that they all could be read (the color rings or numbers) in the same direction - completely unnecessary. In the layout design, even more unnecessary, just taking my valuable time and forcing me to concentrate on details which shouldn't be there in the first place.