diff --git a/media-gfx/povray/files/povray-3.7.0_beta28-betacode.patch b/media-gfx/povray/files/povray-3.7.0_beta28-betacode.patch
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-gfx/povray/files/povray-3.7.0_beta28-betacode.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+This code allows POV-Ray to complain about "beta out of date", but stops it from exit(int)'ing
+--- povray-3.7.0.beta.28/vfe/unix/unixconsole.cpp	2008-08-04 12:52:56.000000000 -0400
++++ /tmp/buffer-content-10089Ugl	2008-09-26 22:03:58.000000000 -0400
+@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
+ 				if (argv[i] != NULL && strcmp(argv[i], "--betacode") == 0)
+ 				{
+ 					fprintf(stderr, "%d\n", current_code);
+-					exit(RETURN_OK);
++					//exit(RETURN_OK);
+ 				}
+ 			const char *beta_code = getenv("POVRAY_BETA");
+ 			if (beta_code != NULL)
+@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
+ 				PACKAGE,
+ 				current_week < 52 ? "has expired" : "is over twelve months old and is no longer usable"
+ 			);
+-			exit(RETURN_ERROR);
++			//exit(RETURN_ERROR);
+ 		}
+ 		current_time = EXPIRE_AT + (current_week+1)*spw - current_time;
+ 	}
+
+Diff finished.  Fri Sep 26 22:03:58 2008