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+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR Home Manager contributors
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the Home Manager Modules package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: Home Manager Modules\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2021-12-13 00:45+0100\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: Automatically generated\n"
+"Language-Team: none\n"
+"Language: fr\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#: modules/files.nix:233
+msgid "Creating home file links in %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: modules/files.nix:246
+msgid "Cleaning up orphan links from %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: modules/files.nix:262
+msgid "Creating profile generation %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: modules/files.nix:266
+msgid "No change so reusing latest profile generation %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: modules/home-environment.nix:633
+msgid "Activating %s"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: modules/lib-bash/activation-init.sh:53
+msgid "Starting Home Manager activation"
+msgstr ""