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The above suggestion will work, as well as the following. However both seem like hacks to me and I would love to hear if anyone knows of if/when proper boolean operators will be added to the roslaunch XML syntax

<group unless="$(arg cond1)">
    <node pkg="PKG" type="TYPE" name="NAME" unless="$(arg cond2)" />
</group>

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