replacing initramfs-tools with dracut

tested on whonix kvm (with live mode/read only)= working good.

but in qubes it gonna remove more/important packages:

root@host:~# apt install dracut
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  dctrl-tools dkms gettext-base grub-common grub2-common initramfs-tools-core
  klibc-utils libefiboot1 libefivar1 libklibc linux-base os-prober
  python3-distro python3-jinja2 python3-markupsafe python3-msgpack
  python3-pycryptodome python3-zmq qubes-core-agent-thunar
  qubes-input-proxy-sender qubes-kernel-vm-support
  qubes-mgmt-salt-vm-connector qubes-usb-proxy salt-common salt-ssh usbutils
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  console-setup console-setup-linux cryptsetup cryptsetup-bin
  cryptsetup-initramfs cryptsetup-run dmeventd dmraid dracut-core exim4-base
  exim4-config exim4-daemon-light gsasl-common guile-2.2-libs kbd kpartx
  libaio1 libdevmapper-event1.02.1 libdmraid1.0.0.rc16 libgnutls-dane0
  libgsasl7 liblvm2cmd2.03 libmailutils7 libmariadb3 libntlm0 libunbound8 lvm2
  mailutils mailutils-common mariadb-common mdadm mysql-common pigz pkg-config
  thin-provisioning-tools
Suggested packages:
  dosfstools keyutils dracut-network exim4-doc-html | exim4-doc-info eximon4
  spf-tools-perl swaks dns-root-data mailutils-mh mailutils-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  initramfs-tools qubes-whonix-gateway
  qubes-whonix-shared-packages-recommended
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  console-setup console-setup-linux cryptsetup cryptsetup-bin
  cryptsetup-initramfs cryptsetup-run dmeventd dmraid dracut dracut-core
  exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light gsasl-common guile-2.2-libs kbd
  kpartx libaio1 libdevmapper-event1.02.1 libdmraid1.0.0.rc16 libgnutls-dane0
  libgsasl7 liblvm2cmd2.03 libmailutils7 libmariadb3 libntlm0 libunbound8 lvm2
  mailutils mailutils-common mariadb-common mdadm mysql-common pigz pkg-config
  thin-provisioning-tools
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