@alper @bobvanderlinden I finally got around to this! See my draft PR #8678.
You should be able to try it out like so:
nix shell -i github:iFreilicht/nix/profile-names-instead-of-index
This will take a long time as it builds nix locally, but I didn’t have time to set up a binary cache for this. The -i is important, otherwise your local install of nix will be used. Alternatively, if you already compiled nix locally from the repo, you can just pull my branch and rebuild, that will be much quicker.
Please give feedback in the GitHub issue so it’s properly tracked 