Office 2013 VL App-V 5 packages

Hi,
We are currently assessing the possibility of deploying Office 2013 as an App-V package since support for VL was announced with MDOP 2013 R2. I would like to create three independent packages:
Office 2013
Project 2013
Visio 2013.
I have successfully created the three App-V packages and they can all be imported an published independently. When I deploy more than one package to the same machine the existing package is un-published and the new package published. The aim is to
be able to deploy the Office App-V package to everyone and only deploy Visio and/or Project to certain users. Currently I can only achieve this by creating multiple App-V packages all including Office (i.e. Office + Visio, Office + Project and
Office + Visio + Project). Is there a supported way to have independent packages of Office, Visio and project 2013 which can co-exist on the same machine (for example, could I use connection groups between the independent packages?)
Thanks.

You should be aware of a few things:
Office App-V Packages must be published globally due to the OS extension points some of which won't work if published to users. See this article for more details: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn481351.aspx
Office, Visio and Project in separate packages may impact the user experience
Volume License editions of Office are licensed per device, so targeting users may place the organisation in breach of the licensing agreement
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Thanks for your answers guys. It does seem the only way to achieve this is to have a single App-V package and use multiple configuration files to determine which combination of applications are published. Far from ideal...

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