[kenmacd]

I would think so. I've tried to do 'feature' groups of options, but without any way to do optional includes I gave up on that idea.

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong with just trying to add the dependencies I want. It might work better if I used the menuconfig GUI. To me though it seems if I decide I want to enable 'CONFIG_NET_TCP' on my project, I shouldn't also have to specify 'CONFIG_NETWORKING'.

As for why it works better in the kernel, that's a good question that I don't know the answer to as it's been years since I tried to build a kernel with a minimum configuration.