What is your favorite way of running 32 bit apps in Arch64?

I'm curious as to what methods Arch64 users use to run their 32 bit applications and what is your opinion on them.
I myself relies mostly on lib32 packages to run a few applications that I need (mostly flash & wine), which works quite nicely expect it makes my system feel a bit 'messier'. chroot looks like a nice option but I've not tried it out yet (it looks complicated to setup to be honest).

Agent69 wrote:
azleifel wrote:I use a chroot to run Epson's 32bit-only binary driver for my 3170 Photo scanner plus XSane and VueScan - something of a waste of disk space but needs must etc. - and lib32 packages for everything else that's 32bit, including nspluginwrapper-flash, CrossOver Linux and Google Earth.
It's good to know that someone has VueScan working on their x64 box. It is the one thing that keeps me dual booting with Vista.
However, just like Zodmaner, chroot looks complicated.
Setting up a chroot isn't that difficult, there are just has a lot of steps to follow!  VueScan works for me in a 32bit chroot with just one issue - for some reason it loses the ability to initialise my scanner and I have to run XSane first to do the initialisation before starting VueScan.  I had the same problem running VueScan in a 32bit chroot on 64bit Ubuntu, so it's not an Arch-specific problem, and Ed Hamrick wasn't able to help when I emailed him.

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