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8336	runserver option for disabling admin static files serving	jakub_vysoky	nobody	"Okay, it's handy not to worry about admin media files static serving, when running simple dev server..

But if you want to do something special with admin media files, like not touching the original ones in `django.contrib.admin` and add some of your own, like we do with very simple static serving view (serve from one dir and fallback to another), you must set `ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = 'http://localhost:8000'`, which is not very portable solution, or symlink files from various dirs and let runserver serve admin static files from there.

If people have in their urls.py something for static media serving when `DEBUG == True` - why not to have there the same for admin?

I'll attach patch that adds an option for runserver management command which gives you the chance just to disable builtin magical serving."		closed	django-admin.py runserver	dev		wontfix	admin media runserver		Design decision needed	1	0	0	0	0	0