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[dilib <dilib@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi kicad-lib-commiters,

My name is Johannes Spanier (aka dilib) I am 37, from Germany and I 
recently joined the kicad-lib-commiters team.
I am pretty new to KiCAD and to EDA at all, but I am an enthusiastic 
hobbyist in electronics. KiCAD is the first (!) EDA tool I ever used and 
so far I am quite pleased.
Albeit being new to KiCAD, I already get a feeling that the library is 
quite good. I hear it is not as extensive as Eagle but definitely on a 
good way. As advanced hobbyist I have erverything that I need.
I already pushed a revision to the lib to include the subdirectories in 
the build process, so that the symbols from dl1eic are accessible in a 
build without having to download the lib from launchpad.

I noticed there is low activity on this mailinglist, but I still want 
to put my question here, since it is really only focused on the library 
and I also want to keep the list alive.

Enough introducing myself, now to my question:
What is the reason for the library/symbols subdirectory and the .sym 
files therein?
I can find no reference in KiCAD code, config or library files to this 
data.
If there really should be no reference to this data, I propose to 
delete this directory to start cleanup.

Regards
dilib