diff --git a/man/rpm-ostree.xml b/man/rpm-ostree.xml
index 0f35de3a..1429506c 100644
--- a/man/rpm-ostree.xml
+++ b/man/rpm-ostree.xml
@@ -229,6 +229,15 @@ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
             <command>uninstall</command> command.
           </para>
 
+          <para>
+            If this is the first time a machine-local change is made,
+            note that this will change rpm-ostree to operate in full
+            hybrid mode.  Concretely, rpm-ostree will also start
+            fetching all enabled rpm-md (yum) repositories and use
+            those for package updates every time
+            <command>rpm-ostree upgrade</command> is invoked.
+          </para>
+
           <para>
             rpm-ostree remembers these requests even if a later host
             update includes those packages already: if the packages are
@@ -273,6 +282,11 @@ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
             <option>--cache-only</option> invocation to perform the
             operation completely offline.
           </para>
+
+          <para>
+            <option>--apply-live</option> will perform a subsequent <command>apply-live</command>
+            operation to apply changes to the booted deployment.
+          </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
diff --git a/src/app/rpmostree-pkg-builtins.cxx b/src/app/rpmostree-pkg-builtins.cxx
index e9e5ec5b..0597f4b0 100644
--- a/src/app/rpmostree-pkg-builtins.cxx
+++ b/src/app/rpmostree-pkg-builtins.cxx
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 static char *opt_osname;
 static gboolean opt_reboot;
 static gboolean opt_dry_run;
+static gboolean opt_apply_live;
 static gboolean opt_idempotent;
 static gchar **opt_install;
 static gchar **opt_uninstall;
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ static GOptionEntry install_option_entry[] = {
   { "uninstall", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY, &opt_uninstall, "Remove overlayed additional package", "PKG" },
   { "cache-only", 'C', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &opt_cache_only, "Do not download latest ostree and RPM data", NULL },
   { "download-only", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &opt_download_only, "Just download latest ostree and RPM data, don't deploy", NULL },
+  { "apply-live", 'A', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &opt_apply_live, "Apply changes to both pending deployment and running filesystem tree", NULL },
   { NULL }
 };
 
@@ -182,10 +184,19 @@ rpmostree_builtin_install (int            argc,
   argv++; argc--;
   argv[argc] = NULL;
 
-  return pkg_change (invocation, sysroot_proxy,
+  if (!pkg_change (invocation, sysroot_proxy,
                      (const char *const*)argv,
                      (const char *const*)opt_uninstall,
-                     cancellable, error);
+                     cancellable, error))
+    return FALSE;
+
+  if (opt_apply_live)
+    {
+      rust::Vec<rust::String> rustargv;
+      rpmostreecxx::applylive_entrypoint(rustargv);
+    }
+
+  return TRUE;
 }
 
 gboolean
diff --git a/tests/kolainst/destructive/apply-live b/tests/kolainst/destructive/apply-live
index 0227b178..5522e187 100755
--- a/tests/kolainst/destructive/apply-live
+++ b/tests/kolainst/destructive/apply-live
@@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ rm -rf /etc/testpkg-etc \
 echo myconfig > /etc/testpkg-etc-other.conf
 grep myconfig /etc/testpkg-etc-other.conf
 
-rpm-ostree install testpkg-etc testdaemon
-rpm-ostree ex apply-live
+rpm-ostree install -A testpkg-etc testdaemon
 rpm -q bar test{pkg-etc,daemon} > rpmq.txt
 assert_file_has_content rpmq.txt bar-1.0-1 test{pkg-etc,daemon}-1.0-1
 cat /etc/testpkg-etc.conf > testpkg-etc.conf