ripit can use a number of different programs to do the actual track extraction and audio encoding. By default ripit uses cdparanoia and lame respectively, so this port depends on those two having been installed. If you want ripit to use other helper utils, just install them and tell ripit which ones to use. It is recommended that you set your CD-device, the preferred ripper and encoder, any encoding quality preferences etc. on the ripit command line and adding "--save" to get those as the default values. This will enable you to later on just type "ripit" and start doing your work. For more help, type "ripit --help"