Thank you all for your input. Hindsight being 20/20 yes, should have never placed application perl scripts accessing system perl. I am now looking for "best" way to "decouple these 2 from each other. Did not know of perlbrew before. I will look to see how I can implement this. These are production systems using perl, and have to tread lightly.
If anyone has any steps/recommendations on achieving this, it would be highly appreciative.
Regards