"Fabrice Niessen" <fni-news@pirilampo.org> writes:

> Hello Andreas,
>
>> First time poster to this mailing list.
>> I was hoping i could get some pointers to a question I have not yet found a
>> solution or example of.
>>
>> I use orgmode and tangled elisp src blocks to initiate emacs. I also use
>> el-get to install packages, however sometimes these packages fail for
>> various reasons and I would like to skip them so that the hall emacs
>> initailisation doesn't brake. However for important packages i have them
>> hardcoded in my init files so that the settings I have doesn't complain.
>> But as I use org-mode to tangle this I can just flip the :tangle to "no" to
>> to not tangle a specific section.
>>
>> my question: Is it possible to have a conditional statement for a tangled
>> block so that only if a package is installed or a directory exist does the
>> block tangle? Meaning that I wouldn't need to hard code all the el-get
>> fetches in my init file.

Yes, this is possible, e.g.,