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Actually, it's not a package repository (it doesn't store crates), it's "just" a website to display metadata from crates published on crates.io. It also shows certain information from docs.rs, GitHub, rustsec.org, etc, and has many useful features that the crates.io website lacks, including a pretty good full-text search.
It's also quite opinated (which I consider a good thing) so that what the author of lib.rs considers relevant crates are shown first.