Again, I do what works for me. I generate BOMs from the schematic, not the PCB. I never said others have to do it the way I do. I just offered my methods as a possible way it can be done.
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Hi @SembazuruCDE,
It was absolutely not my intention to say your method is incorrect. Sorry if it sounded like that… 
It’s just that I don’t like “clutter” (again, not offending) and that’s what I had initially. I just found that the method mentioned by the other two guys better suited my needs. One footprint that fits it all, IC and socket.
And regarding the BOM: if I were to let it stuffed by a PCB house or whatever, the most important would be that the socket would be in place. Adding the IC itself manually afterwards isn’t a big deal (as you can guess, I’m still using DIL versions, so it’s not the intention to make hundreds of thousands of these things…).
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