Most tools require some preliminary investment in terms of setting up libraries to the satisfaction of the user, plus general familiarisation. I think you will find you only need to modify your symbol once to include the appropriate SPICE directives. If you save this symbol you can then reuse it (not trying to make you suck eggs here but this argument seems stalled to the point of stating the obvious).
The purpose of gschem does not include containing a library of symbols that include all possible spice and pcb footprint information. gEDA includes gattrib to ease the process of customising symbols - this is not the only method of adding/editing attributes though. Comparing gEDA with LTSpice is a bit odd once you understand the purpose of gEDA. LTSpice by definition has all the SPICE information for all its library components - but I'll warrent it has very little information about component footprints. gEDA is much more powerful and versatile than LTSpice but does require you to do a bit of manual work to begin with. There is discussion about creating a database separate to gschem that may in the future provide SPICE symbol data for standard components. Depending on how this is integrated into the workflow, perhaps this would ease your concerns. Not much help at this stage though... All the best, Geoff
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