import type { BasePayload } from 'payload';
import type { TitleOrder } from './composeTitle.js';
export type SiteMetaConfig = {
    siteName: string | null;
    /** Padded separator, e.g. ' | ' — the panel stores the bare character. */
    separator?: string;
    order?: TitleOrder;
    /**
     * Home slug per locale, e.g. { pl: 'strona-glowna', de: 'startseite' }. A map
     * (not a single string) so multilingual homepages collapse to root in EVERY
     * language — otherwise hreflang points other languages at '/de/startseite'
     * instead of '/de', breaking return tags (a real GSC error).
     */
    homeSlug?: Record<string, string>;
};
/**
 * Reads the site-wide inputs to title and URL composition from SiteSettings.
 *
 * Split out of metadata assembly because these are one concern with one source:
 * whatever an editor set in the panel. Metadata generation shouldn't also know
 * that the separator arrives unpadded, or that the home slug hides inside a
 * relationship — it should receive a resolved config.
 */
export declare function readSiteMetaConfig({ payload, locale, settingsSlug, siteNameField, }: {
    payload: BasePayload;
    locale: string;
    settingsSlug?: string;
    siteNameField?: string;
}): Promise<SiteMetaConfig>;