import type { BasePayload } from 'payload';
import type { TitleOrder } from './composeTitle.js';
export type SiteMetaConfig = {
    /** Slug of the page assigned as Homepage; collapses to the locale root. */
    homeSlug?: string;
    order?: TitleOrder;
    /** Padded separator, e.g. ' | ' — the panel stores the bare character. */
    separator?: string;
    siteName: null | 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({ locale, payload, settingsSlug, siteNameField, }: {
    locale: string;
    payload: BasePayload;
    settingsSlug?: string;
    siteNameField?: string;
}): Promise<SiteMetaConfig>;