Well.. SCCM 2012 makes a lot of things easier… For example – getting all the Visual C++ Redistributables in place.
The above is a picture of all the things that are layed down when deploying the App-V 5 Beta 2 client. Most of the list can be found in the older article on howto setup a packaging machine, some are new (such as the Windows Management Framework 3.0 or http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2533623) and others are skipped (J# 1.1..).