I know I'm coming really late to the game, but we were struggling with this exact same problem and here is how we solved it.
ILMerge is designed to create a new package/component as a boxed 'product' (API,Program...) to simplify assembly management like deployment, gac referencement, assembly visibility and more either for all-in-one use or external use, not mixed.
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