An additional patch for file-roller GTK2 to put temporary files in /tmp instead of ~/.cache (and thus to reduce the amount of writes to SSDs). Backported from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/file-roller-tmp/.

file-roller2-nn-tmp.patch

--- a/src/file-utils.c
+++ b/src/file-utils.c
@@ -886,26 +886,6 @@
 }
 
 
-static const char *try_folder[] = { "cache", "~", "tmp", NULL };
-
-
-static char *
-ith_temp_folder_to_try (int n)
-{
-	const char *folder;
-
-	folder = try_folder[n];
-	if (strcmp (folder, "cache") == 0)
-		folder = g_get_user_cache_dir ();
-	else if (strcmp (folder, "~") == 0)
-		folder = g_get_home_dir ();
-	else if (strcmp (folder, "tmp") == 0)
-		folder = g_get_tmp_dir ();
-
-	return g_strdup (folder);
-}
-
-
 char *
 get_temp_work_dir (const char *parent_folder)
 {
@@ -916,22 +896,7 @@
 	char    *result = NULL;
 
 	if (parent_folder == NULL) { 	
-		/* find the folder with more free space. */
-	
-		for (i = 0; try_folder[i] != NULL; i++) {
-			char    *folder;
-			guint64  size;
-	
-			folder = ith_temp_folder_to_try (i);
-			size = get_dest_free_space (folder);
-			if (max_size < size) {
-				max_size = size;
-				g_free (best_folder);
-				best_folder = folder;
-			}
-			else
-				g_free (folder);
-		}
+        best_folder = g_strdup (g_get_tmp_dir ());
 	}	
 	else 
 		best_folder = g_strdup (parent_folder);
@@ -962,14 +927,12 @@
 	else if (dir[0] != '/')
 		return FALSE;
 
-	for (i = 0; try_folder[i] != NULL; i++) {
-
-		folder = ith_temp_folder_to_try (i);
-		if (strncmp (dir, folder, strlen (folder)) == 0)
-			if (strncmp (dir + strlen (folder), "/.fr-", 5) == 0) {
-				g_free (folder);
-				return TRUE;
-			}
+	folder = g_strdup (g_get_tmp_dir ());
+	if (strncmp (dir, folder, strlen (folder)) == 0) {
+		if (strncmp (dir + strlen (folder), "/.fr-", 5) == 0) {
+			g_free (folder);
+			return TRUE;
+		}
 	}
 
 	g_free (folder);