perl system integrity?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

Does any means exist within perl to detect that a perl base installed on a 
system is completely intact?  Perl base is perl binary and all support 
packages that binary uses before cpan or cpanp is run.  The perl base is 
put on newly installed systems.
I am interested in this since sometimes system updates break perl and 
steps have to be taken to clear the breakage then repair steps need to be 
taken.  If a means exists to let a user know this list of packages came 
with your installed system and are now missing perl system repairs could 
be expedited.
Aside from perl, such capabilities added to other base systems like python 
for one example could help out repairing those other systems too.



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