DRC warnings with no rear silkscreen

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Hi, I am laying out a PCB with silkscreen only on the front of the board.
However I am getting DRC errors saying that there is an overlap between the solder mask and silk screen for components on the rear of the board.

I can clear the errors but it means changing my board setup to have a rear silkscreen, moving the offending items then removing the rear silkscreen from the board setup again.

I would rather that warnings were not generated about a layer which does not appear on my board.

I am using Version 8.0.5

Thanks Peter

(Can I just add that I LOVE KiCAD. it is a very capable and easy to use bit of software. Well done to the developers)

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If KiCad still shows DRC violations for layers which are disabled in the board setup, then it smells like a bug in KiCad and the best action is to report it on gitlab.

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Hi, Thanks for the reply. I thought it might be a bug. However, I have not used KiCAD for a long time and didn’t want to report a bug if there was just a simple setting I had overlooked.

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