Let's not talk about the current status, but about the long-term vision:

The goal of klik is to have _one_ cmg that can be run on _all_ distros that are compliant.
For this, we need to make Linux a "platform", like Mac or Windows are (known set of core libraries and applications that are part of every system). The Linux Standards Base Desktop is a project which works on this already.

So the goal is really to have "universally portable" cmg files. Even if they are a bit larger than they would need to be for one particular system.

Advantage: You can have _one_ cmg that runs on _any_ klik-compliant base system. Just copy to another machine, runs.

(We're not there yet completely, granted - but we one day will...)

Greetings,
probono