Feature request: configuration of garbage collection

I'm interested in using gitit as a note-taking environment. Typically I'll be taking notes on a netbook in a conference hall without power outlets, and therefore running on battery.

I see from the gitit help that:

> By default, GHC’s runtime will repeatedly attempt to collect garbage when an executable like Gitit is idle. ...
> To fix this, one can disable the idle-time GC with the runtime flag -I0

Except, of course, one can't if one is using a precompiled binary (from, say, the Ubuntu repo). From what I understand, having researched the cryptically unhelpful error message I received in response to trying to set said flag (not your fault, obviously!), one can only do this (as of GHC 7) if the program has been compiled with -rtsopts=all, which no self-respecting packager will do because of the Potential Security Nightmare it would unleash.

I have no idea if this is even possible, but I ask in hope: is there a way you could put a switch into the application itself for turning idle-time GC off, so lazy end users like myself don't have to recompile from source in order to do it?