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-rw-r--r--doc/installerfw.qdoc6
-rw-r--r--src/libs/installer/packagemanagergui.cpp1
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/installerfw.qdoc b/doc/installerfw.qdoc
index 6c2825154..1ef42a91e 100644
--- a/doc/installerfw.qdoc
+++ b/doc/installerfw.qdoc
@@ -1139,7 +1139,11 @@
By default, only repositories with no category are shown in the component selection widget. Checking one or
several repositories and pressing \uicontrol Fetch will update the widget to show content also
- from the selected categorized repositories.
+ from the selected categorized repositories. Components in the repository
+ categories are marked as \e unstable meaning that you can install other
+ components although some components have missing dependencies, script
+ errors and so on. For more information about \e unstable components, see
+ \l {Summary of Configuration File Elements}.
Example of creating a repository category:
diff --git a/src/libs/installer/packagemanagergui.cpp b/src/libs/installer/packagemanagergui.cpp
index dfa7542c6..a053e9bff 100644
--- a/src/libs/installer/packagemanagergui.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/installer/packagemanagergui.cpp
@@ -1913,6 +1913,7 @@ void ComponentSelectionPage::entering()
if (core->settings().repositoryCategories().count() > 0 && !core->isOfflineOnly()
&& !core->isUpdater()) {
d->showCategoryLayout(true);
+ core->settings().setAllowUnstableComponents(true);
} else {
d->showCategoryLayout(false);
}