Please help with slime initialisation

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Hi,

I added slime to my configuration via package management. 

My load-path
variable contains the correct load-path:
  "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224"

This directory contains a slime-autoloads.el ending with a 
  (provide 'slime-autoloads)

My .emacs has a 

  (require 'slime-autoloads) 

line but it complains that it does
not find it, unless I explicitely precede this require line with: 

  (add-to-list 'load-path (concat emacsd-dir "elpa/slime-20141002.1224")) 

which adds a second "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224" to
my load-path.

Why does it only work with this additional entry in the load-path list?

Please advise,


Guido

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